Norm Higgs wrote:
> I've been rather undecided on whether to just buy a commmercial
> router/firewall, or put together an older pentuim pc and put smoothwall or
> some other 'nix based router/firewall.
This router/firewall I purchased cost me under $20.00, and doesn't take
up much desk space.
I'll report how it works out for me.
> LOL - I have no clue how to consult my man pages! I saw that mentioned many
> times but nothing to clue me into how to do it. I didn't even know there
> were any man pages.
Heh! The man pages are in your computer.
Open a shell, aka a terminal... like opening a command.com or cmd.exe
shell in Windows. Then, if you want to learn about a command, line
'mount' you type 'man mount', and press 'Enter', and instead of
executing the command, it will open a man page for the command 'mount',
for you.
These man pages were written for programmers, and they are quite terse,
but once you get used to the format, they are very useful, because they
are all written the same way.
> The main thing I've been looking for is the network driver. I found
> references for where to find it in the 2.4 kernel:
I'm not even sure what you mean by a network driver. Most NIC's
autoconfigure, when you boot up... they run on devices like eth0 and
eth1, and use TCP/IP, which is native on *nix installs.
To set your IP addy for your eth0 device, if you are running a graphical
desktop, try clicking the Fedora icon ('Start' menu in Windows, then
selecting something like 'System Tools | Network Device Control'
Assign eth0 an IP of say... 192.168.0.100
Then, manually assign one of your Windows boxes on the LAN
192.168.0.101. You have to take Windows boxes off the Windows Networking
auto-assign for IP's, and put it in the 192.168.0.X range, with your
*nix box.
Then open a terminal on the *nix box, and type 'ping 192.168.0.101' and
you should be able to successfully ping with Windows box... assuming the
LAN was working for the Windows boxes previously. To stop 'ping', use
Crtl-C'
Once you can ping back and forth, you know you have a network connection
with TCP/IP, and you can work on playing with ssh, ftp, and eventually Samba
This is stuff I just finished working the bugs out of a few weeks ago,
so I have it fresh in my mind.<g>
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