On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Leen Besselink wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > > > I thought it's clear. There are two computers - one in my home (debian, > > slow modem connection) and one where i study (RH, fast connection). > > Now, i can take my /var/lib/dpkg/status file, compress it (~100KB) and > > send it to RH. There i could choose what packages i want (using dselect), > > download them (apt-get -d dselect-upgrade), take them to my home and > > install. > > Why don't you just use masqurading firewalling ?? First you need to have > masquerading setup in your RH's kernel, then you add one rule to your > ipchains, ipfwadm or iptables (depending on your RH's kernel version) and > add it to the startup. Then just point your gateway on your Debian machine > at your RH machine. > > This seems like a lot easier way. And everytime you want the debian > machine to use his slow connection, change the Debian's default route over > the modem (PPP?) link.
If i understand you properly, debian machine should use RH as proxy server ? This doesn't change anything, because there still be slow connection from debian to RH. -- Piotrek irc: #Debian.pl