At 10:33 PM 12/11/98 +0100, you wrote:
>
>IP-masqurade will work for internet access. I use it here with my
>lan (NT workstation on one, several windows 95 boxes and one
>power mac) to access the net.
>You can configure your mailserver to spool locally with minimal
>difficulty since that's a fairly common practice anyway, kind of the
>default...
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>IN simpler terms: SuSE linux is your dream come true (at least in
>this case). :)
>
>> Greetings to all,
>>
>> I will shorthly receive an old box ( Pentium 90 with 96 Mb RAM, 1 Gb
>> SCSI drive on ADAPTEC 2940)
>>
>>
>> I was thinking of using this machine to be the dialup server to the
>> Internet and a file server for NT workstations, SGI stations, PC Linux
>> stations ( in a close future ).
>>
>> I was thinking of using Linux
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This is not to you in particular, but to those who are considering ISDN for a LAN and
have some money buring a hole your pocket :-). Instead of dealing with a dialing
server and routing and so forth with that, an elegant (though pricey) solution to this
problem is a ISDN LAN modem. I chose this option, even though it was more expensive,
because I screw around with my machines a lot (I run NT, linux, BeOS, FreeBSD and
OpenBSD on one machine alone) and when I screw up the one that dials in, I have no net
access under that OS (or sometimes, any). The LAN modem is OS agnostic and configured
through a built in http server. I just use a web browser to configure and then leave
it alone. Since I have several machines on my network, it's better for me because I
only have to set the default gateway and the DNS server to the address of the modem
(determined by me) on each of the machines and it simply works.
I know it's pricy and some people like the pain of setting up stuff like this, but
it's an option. I work as a admin at work. When I come home, I just want it to work
:-)
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