On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 19:55, Penguin wrote: > 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?
Internally you would use one set of IP addresses but externally the ISP would only see a signle IP address. This is typcially called masqerading. With Debian you can get a good starting set with ipmasq package. This is what I use and it works well. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
