On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:22:41 +1100 Peter Rundle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? Yes. Its not even all that difficult. > 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? Thats the way I have it set up. > Nope? > harder than that, some sort of card has to go in the PC along with some > software? There are a couple of options. The easiest from the Linux point of view is the external cable modem with an ethernet connection. > Heard something about a .exe that is used to initiate the modem, > is there an equivelent for Linux? Yes, called bpalogin. Available at http://bpalogin.sourceforge.net/ > Or is this just a monitoring toy? Also > what > about IP address? Is that a DHCP thing from Telstra? Yep standard DHCP. > Any and all success and other stories appreciated Works reasonably well for me. I installed win98 on a partition of one of my drives for the installation. As soon as the telstra techs had left I rebooted to Linux and habe not used windows on the connect since. I currently suffering from some latency spike of 10-50 seconds but apart from that its not too bad. > Question 2. (actually network 101 revision question) Because the connection Sorry can't help on that. You might find however that when you have Linux running the show, your reliability may go up. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Linux: the only OS that makes you feel guilty when you reboot -- Kenneth Crudup in comp.os.linux.misc -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
