rocky wrote:
Hey,
In my office, we have 11 computers. We have 2 2M broad band accounts
from our ISP. We use a router combines 2 income cable and use 2 8
ports switches to make every computer have the Internet access. The
problem is right now we got very unstable Internet access. Therefore,
I'm thinking of instead of directly connect 2 switches to router, I
connect 1 Debian box(has 2 NIC) to the router and then distribute the
Internet access to all 11 PCs through a 16 port switch which is
connected to the Debian system. In this way I can install traffic
monitoring application s on Debian box to analyze the problems. Can
any of you tell me whether this is a good way to do it please? If it
is what are the applications I should put in Debian box? If it is not
a good way, what is your suggestions please?
Thanks a lot�
Blessings,
Rocky
The routing "application" is linux (iptables), with several specific IP and
netfilter drivers/modules. The easy way is to just throw in all the networking
relates ones, since they don't take up much memory unless you are using an old
PC as your router/firwall, as I do.
There are several applications to configure iptables, a popular choice being
shorewall, although for initial setup guarddog/guidedog might be a little easier
to use. There are several Debian network monitoring applications, e.g., iptraf
and tcpdump.
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