[MLB-WIRELESS] Linux net-sharing

[Geoff Hammond]

Linux (and most UNIX variants) are really good routers. Most automatic routing protocols such as OSPF, RIP and the good old static routes are easily handled with a small amount of manual reading or experience. You can setup DHCP and DNS servers so that your local LAN looks like the one at work. You can instigate caching proxies so that you conserve bandwidth. You can do stuff that is in breach of your acceptable usage agreement and you can do it at minimal cost.

The wonderful thing about Linux (and some flavours of BSD) for people wealthy enough to purchase ADSL and similar broadband connections is the support provided by software engineers. The Roaring Penguin software for Linux and BSD is about as stable as you could desire, although the vendors (rightly, in my view) only officially support certain distributions....

Without providing a bunch of links, anyone thinking about doing what Will has expressed should wander over to the squid internet cache site, one of the Linux sites...linux.org, etc... (my favourite is redhat.com, coz everyone supports it).

If you have specific queries and are prepared to accept possibly cryptic, somewhat delayed, or even "You really should know this, but here it is..." responses, I would happily answer them offline. (Retail quantities only, please....)


gah
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Will Lanigan 
  To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org 
  Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 10:12 PM
  Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Linux net-sharing


  Just by-the-by, how exactly does one share a (bpa) cable internet connection in linux? Is it hard? Are there any links to tutorials that anyone would be able to give me? What program would one use?
  LOL

  I'm going to move to Linux (Mandrake 8.1) with my server in the near future in preperation for the wireless card that i will be getting ASARP! (where R = Realistically)

  Any help would be gladly appreciated!
  Thanks,

  Will
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