On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, James wrote: > If it was too long for the subject line: > > Internet <---> 486 firewall & NAT <---> Workstation > > I will be having an on-ramp (home highway) thingie for 128K ISDN installed > next week, and several have suggested I have my old 486 (66MHz/20MB RAM) as a > dedicated firewall + NAT, with say an ethernet plug for the home highway, and > another ethernet card for my Pentium III workstation to plug into, and get > the Pentium III workstation to masquerade behind the 486, and somehow get it > to use the Internet over the ethernet connection between the 486 firewall and > the Pentium III. > > Is there any good beginners documentation on doing this? Can someone advise > me on what is the best setup, coax them together, ethernet or what? A Hub? Do > I need a static IP? Is it best to have a static IP? I will be using my ISDN > as a dialup anyway to avoid $700/month charges for an always on permanent > ISDN connection.
If your ISP is not Telstra, have a chat to them about doing Data Over Voice (DOV) with your ISDN. You need to connect the ISDN directly to an ISDN card to do this though++, which can also save you the cost of an NTU (Network Terminating Unit). Doing DOV means you can connect all day (possibly all week) for the cost of 2 local calls (1 for each of 64K). ++ I guess it depends on the NTU you end up with, maybe it's configurable to do this. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
