On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 07:19:59PM -0800, Bill Houle wrote:
> I would guess Linux would be perfect for this, but I don't use that
> configuration so I cannot say.
It's great for it. In fact, I recall a two-part article in PC Week
wherein one of the editors went through the entire process.
Another way to handle is to do what I've done (albeit with Suns,
not with Linux boxes): only one box actually ever connects to the
outside world. It's configured as a proxy server (for outbound
telnet and ftp; no inbound), a bidirectional mail relay
(ONLY for my machines; it logs anything else and traces it back),
a proxy caching web server, and a few other things. Since 99% of
everything I do is telnet/ftp/smtp/http, this works fine for me.
It also only requires one real IP address; since the other machines'
addresses never see the outside world, you can number them any way
you like. I've used the class C network that's set aside for
private networks, i.e. the address range that nobody should ever
use on the 'net at large -- 192.168.0.0. (There's also a class B
and a class A should you be really ambitious.)
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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