----- Original Message ----- From: Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 02:55:02 +0800 (PHT) To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [plug] dial up server? > Actually, if you proceeded to explain your point I'd probably have > understood it. > > The question was how to set up a Linux dialup server, to allow people to > access the Internet from a remote place via the Linux box's Internet > connection. So I'd wager this means setting up mgetty+pppd, and if the > "caller" will get a private IP address, IP Masquerading and/or cacheing > services. > > When you say "setup a linux router", exactly what do you mean? And how > does that solve the problem at hand? > > --> Jijo
Well, to go in-depth about setting up a linux router will take a long mail. Here's just something off the top from what I've read recently. You can setup your linux box to act as a router(routing protocols and such on your LAN) but it's purpose is reduced to what a router actually is(i.e. No more shell programming, X, etc.). Of course you can still do what you usually do but if the box is setup as a router on your LAN/WAN, the more processes you run, the more memory it needs and we all know that is not what we want(at least I don't want that) to happen. I've setup a Cisco router before that will act as a dial-in server(RAS) and I'm pretty sure you can do that too with a linux box. Of course, security will be an issue when you do that. Anyway, I'll get to the specifics on the next mail. It's pretty late now and I still got work tomorrow. So till next time... -------------- Yardan Ambrose Certified Penguin Enthusiast [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
