what all do you use the linux server box for? If it is mainly for file storage
and now for a gateway. You will want to look at www.e-smith.org it sets up in
10 minutes make a quite secure firewall, mail server, directory server, file
and print server. We use on of these at work an a pentium 120 with 10 or so
users and we are using the web cache (squid) quite extensively with a script to
filter web page ads. We are very happy with it. We added another several hard
drives to it and it is faster serving a database file than our NT 4.sp4 server
that is on a 400mhz Pentium II. That machine is running MS exchange for all
our company (3 locations) shared calendars though.
Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> At 06:38 PM 2/27/00 +0100, Adam Skogman wrote:
> > > > I WANT:
> > > > 1) The linux server to be the gate to the external net, posing as
> > web/ftp/file/ssh-server.
> > > > 2) The windows machine to be able to use ICQ etc. with it's own IP.
> > > >
> > > > How do I do this? I probably need another NIC, but that's ok. But
> > will the passing of traffic through the linux machine pose any problems,
> > like ICQ not beeing able to connect (I've seen this happen when behind
> > firewalls).
> > >
> > > Without buying more equipment about the best you can do is change the
> > > gateway of the windows box to the linux box and set the linuxbox to
> > > forward for it. Now your windows machine will send everything direct to
> > > the linux machine instead of haveing to go thru the schools routers.
> >
> >Wait a sec, if I do this, then the traffic from the linux to the windows
> >machine still uses the bandwidth of the external net and is still
> >unprotected (can be snooped). Or am I wrong?
> >
> >I want to be able to communicate between the two machines without this
> >traffic leaking onto the external net.
>
> Like you said, put a second nic in the linux box, and connect it to the
> winblows box with a crossover ethernet cable.
