Re: Ameritech ADSL

["Alan Mead" <amead8695 home com>]

I have this sort of thing set up... I have a couple comments below...

From: "Jerry Human" <jerrbear ameritech net>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: Ameritech ADSL


> Hi Rodney Fulk:
>
> Actually, I do have a Linksys EFAH08W hub, but it doesn't seem to work
between
> the windoze boxes.

Hubs are so simple and configuring networks sufficiently difficult that I'll
bet the hardware works.  But if not, you're dead in the water without a hub.

I have a small LAN behind a Linux-based NAT gateway.  So I have a single
(486) computer with two network cards.  One card is plugged into the cable
modem and the other goes to my hub.  This gateway computer is running a
disk-based Linux distribution created just for such purposes called LRP
(http://www.linuxrouter.org).  I don't know if LRP will do pppoe.  I then
plug all my machines into this hub and each machine can then access each
other and the Internet.  All my internal machines and the internal interface
on the gateway (the NIC that is plugged into my hub) have IP addresses from
the private space 192.168.0.x (net mask 255.255.255.0).  The gateway IP is
the internal internal on the gateway computer and the DNS is the IP
addresses given me by my cable company.  This works fine for my Linux and
Win98 machines.

Previously I had my main Linux machine running Red Hat as the gateway.  That
worked fine but I thought a dedicated gateway would be safer and the LRP
distribution is pretty simple to setup.  The hardest part for me was getting
my odd NIC drivers onto the boot disk image.  It was also an adjustment to
use LRP which is Debian-derived and very stripped down.

I think a good source for help getting pre-packaged solutions, like LRP,
running is the Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall list:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user

-Alan