michael wrote:
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 22:23 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:18:15PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Michael writes:
I don't want to fork out dosh for a modem/router.
The "router" can be an old junker pc running Linux.
It can even be one of your two PC's, as long as you're willing to dedicate
it to Linux. And you'd have to put an ethernet card on it for your
local net, in addition to what you've got to talk to the rest of the world.
Yes, yes, yes. This is what I am talking about! I was being too general
before I guess in order not to restrict ideas...
Then you can set up that PC as a masquerading router. Look for the
HOWTO on IP Masquerading.
okay, i'll chase that up. (I was hoping there would be a "how to turn
you Debian PC into a router and connect it to other machines on your
home LAN"!)
ta, Michael
It's not debian-based, but ipcop (www.ipcop.org) works pretty sweet. I run it
on an old laptop so the power doesn't eat me up. I've got a URL filtering
add-on working so the kids don't see the pr0n. :) Of course, I've got my 2nd
NIC running to a switch so all my other pc's can share the connection, but you
could just run it straight to the 2nd pc with a crossover cable if you wished.
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