Sluggers, Just need some advice and opinions on a little job I've been offered.
Office has a Telstra Big pond cable connection to a Windoze 2K box which acts as the gateway for a small network of Macs. Apparently the cable connection falls over all the time along with the Doze box, also there is *no* firewall protection at all on the Doze box. Suggestion is to put in a Linux box to act as the gateway along with Iptables. Question 1. Is it possible to connect to Telstra Cable from Linux? I'm not familiar with Telstra cable, I assume that there is some sort of cable modem that handles that side of it and I just get an ethernet connection? Nope? harder than that, some sort of card has to go in the PC along with some software? Heard something about a .exe that is used to initiate the modem, is there an equivelent for Linux? Or is this just a monitoring toy? Also what about IP address? Is that a DHCP thing from Telstra? Any and all success and other stories appreciated Question 2. (actually network 101 revision question) Because the connection falls over all the time I'm considering putting a serial modem on the linux box and setting up the default route to the cable modem interface, with a lower priority route to the ppp connection (with demand dial option :-). Now if the cable modem doesn't respond to an outgoing packet will the Linux kernel / network layer automatically try to send it to the lower priority interface or do I have to monitor and manage the route table myself? (I believe it will but as I said network 101 revision material). Many TIA's Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
