NAT would allow the work station to access the internet through the 486, look up
howto's on IPMASQUERADING
As for the setup there are a few ways you could do it, you can plug the 486 and the
workstation into the hub as well as the on ramp.
you could put 2 NIC's in the 486 and plug the onramp directly in and then connect the
work station via a crossover (or coax upto you) to the 486.
there just the methods I can think of (they could be wrong) I'm sure others on list
could give more suggestions.
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Karl Clements
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<reply who="Penguin" date="Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:55:13 +1100">
> Yeah I will be having ISDN 128K installed next week, and this is the reason
> I'm getting more paranoid. Several people I trust who know a lot about Linux
> and stuff have suggested exactly what you do, to use an old 486 as a
> firewall. What's NAT? Why do I need it?
>
> Yeppers I'm convinced I will be better off that way. So how do I hook them
> together? Tie them up with a hub and ethernet cards, having the ISDN working
> off the 486 and the ws using the internet via the ethernet, like:
>
> <-----> Internet <---> 486 {ethernet} <---> Workstation
>
> ?
>
> Cheers
> James
>
> On Saturday 05 January 2002 7:39 pm, you wrote:
> > You have an isdn to your work station? if so why not throw up an old 486
> > with a distro you know and trust setup to do nat and firewalling and run
> > what ever you like on your work station, that way your ws wont be slowed
> > down if some smart arse decides to (d)dos you.
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