On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Isaac Curtis wrote: > >> On Sunday 18 August 2002 01:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>I am going to have a fast internet connection soon and would like to be > >>>able to provide friends/family with dialup internet access using a comp > >>> at my place as the server. Is this possible? What hardware do I need? > >>> What software do I need to learn? RTFM all you wish, I'd actually > >>> appreciate it, I just don't even know what I'm looking for at this > >>> point. > >>> > >>>Peace, > >>>Isaac > >>> > >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >> > >> Okay, I just read Josh Gentry's Linux Dialin Server Setup Guide > >> (http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers.html) which seems like it'd be fine > >> and dandy if I had just one modem and just one person looking to leech > >> off my connection, but in my case I've got two and I have to assume it's > >> a little more complicated. Do I need an additional modem for the extra > >> piggybacker? An additional phone line? I know all users dial a normal > >> ISP at the same number so that doesn't make much sense, and I have no > >> idea about just how many modems are sitting in the server room of a > >> local station so I really am at a very introductory level here. Any > >> manual referrals or straight information would be great. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Isaac > > Isaac, > > The very first question you really need to get answered is, "Is my ISP > going to sit still for this?" Depending on who your cable internet > service is going to be, if indeed it is cable service you're going to be > getting, most do not allow their customers to do what you're thinking > about. In fact they're so anul about this that they don't even allow > their customers to operate their own personal webservers while connected > to their service. So, I have real strong doubts as to whether or not > you're going to be able to do what you're suggesting. > > Mark > a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR
Like I said in my other email, if there's a legitimate concern about being caught I won't carry it forward, but I do want to set it up once just to learn how. My interest is in learning how to do it much more than it is helping out the two households who I'd like to provide free service for. I certainly wouldn't be charging for it or anything dirty like that, I'd just really like to learn how to do it so that I learn the ins and outs and the hardware/software tools involved. Even if all I get to do is tinker around for a weekend getting it setup, the gratification of learning how to do it is all I'm really looking for. I'm not interested in getting in any trouble (and certainly not in losing my cable internet!) so I won't do anything too rotten. Still, most every ISP, broadband or otherwise, explicitly bars one from sharing their connection on a home network-- and I'm sure most all of you do that. Six one, half dozen the other to me. I won't do anything that'd risk getting caught, though, I just want to learn how to do it for learning's sake. Peace. Isaac
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