On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 at 00:35, Yardan Ambrose wrote: > 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...
Don't worry about the "gory details". I didn't want to know how to do it. I just wanted to know exactly what you meant. And now that I know what you mean (err, what you "read recently"), this is exactly how the setup I described works. Perhaps I forgot to mention that IP forwarding must be enabled, but that's integral to setting up IP Masquerading (aka: NAT) which I did mention. So yes, technically the setup is both a RAS as well as a router. And a firewall. And a proxy. And whatever else you want it to be. Oh, I didn't just read about this, I've got a number of them set up already. ;) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE _ 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]
