On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Francois Haasbroek wrote: > Hi sluggers > > I have a Alcatel Speedtouch Home ADSL modem > linking my win98 box to Telstra. (SMC 100 Mbps NIC). > > I have another box (Celeron 500 MHz/32 MB Ram/350 MB Hard disk) > and want to install a minimal Linux on it: > 1) I want to host a http download site. I develop in Delphi > and allow my customers to live-update from a http server. > 10 x 1MB files max. > 2) I want Linux as a firewall/proxyserver for 2 win98 boxes. > 3) I want Linux to fetch mail from various mailboxes and deliver > it to the correct win98 box. Or even as a full blown mailserver. > 4) Instead of a hub I want to use 3 network cards in the Linux > box, 1 for the ADSL and 1 for each of the win98 boxes all > linked with crossover cables. > > Q1: Is this feasible?
Very doable, but how are you going to have your customers find your http site? The Telstra ADSL is dynamic IP so you will need a dynamic DNS behind a static IP somewhere and you will need to have your gateway box run a script in ip-up (ip-up.local actually) to advertise its new IP on a very short TTL to the dynamic DNS. I have done this successfully for clients and can consult it for you. If you also want to run a mail server which listens on port 25 for incoming connections then the above remarks also apply unless you use fetchmail from another (ISP hosted) mailserver somewhere. Soemone suggested using coax if you don't want to use a hub. Just remember that coax is only 10mbps and does not do 100mbps. It may not be critical but it is something to remember. > Q2: Which is the best distro(s) for the above? I do mine with RH7.2. It has rp-pppoe installed as standard, but you will need more that 350Mb HDD unless you cut the install down pretty dramatically, and 64Mb RAM might be a good move as well; the Celery is OK tho. > Q3: Is it possible to do it from the commandline only (no GUI)? Best way. Why run a GUI that you are never going to use. Mine all run headless so there is absolutely no need for a GUI; I ssh into them. > Q4: How do I connect to the Telstra ADSL line? I suggest that you give the NIC that will connect to the Alcatel a static IP of 10.0.0.1 (it isn't used anyway, but linuxconf needs to be told something). You then run adsl-setup to configure the pppoe config files (Caveat: adsl-setup appears to be missing from the RH7.2 distro, you might need to get it from RH7.1) adsl-start will start the connection and adsl-status checks its status. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "I believe that forgiving them [terrorists] is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting." - General "Storm'n" Norman Schwartzkopf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
