> I have two cable modem connections coming into my home office and have a dsl line on the way. Currently one of the cable lines is connected to a single machine which is not on the lan. What I'd like to do, especially when the dsl comes in is to set up a box with lrp to share all three broadband connections with the lan and have a separate dmz network setup for a box I can get to from the outside world. I'd also like to do some sort of rudimentary load balancing (round robin would suffice.)
Hmm...define more about what you want for load-balancing. Are you wanting to balance internal masqueraded machines internet access, inbound access to servers (e-mail, web, &c), or both? > I have an old Pentim (166Mhz I believe) with 20MB of RAM and three ISA slots that I'd like to use for this. (assuming I can get an ISA multiport card). This brings me to question 1) Will this box be able to handle that many interfaces (only 3-4 users and no public servers running)? The P166 is plenty fast enough, but with the system you describe, I'd want something with a PCI bus, and several good PCI NIC's (or a multi-port, like the DFE-570TX discussed in a seperate thread). You might also want a bit more memory (depending on exactly how many accessory packages you want to run) > Failing that I have a PII 300 with 64MB and 5 PCI slots I can use in a pinch... This would be better (PCI slots), althouh unless you're running VPN, the CPU is overkill, and you'll almost never fill up 64 Meg of RAM... > Second question: How hard is it to configure lrp for this type of setup? Pretty complicated, although someone was saying one of the add-on firewall packages supports multiple external interfaces. You'll probably have to become quite familiar with the kernel's advanced routing features, and ipchains/iptables rules, regardless. > What distributions do you all recommend If I'm remembering correctly, and one of the add-on firewall scripts will support multiple external interfaces (in a way that matches what you want to do with load-balancing), use whatever disto that script recommends. If you're going to be coding your own firewall/routing rules, it probably doesn't matter which disto you pick, although Oxygen and LRP 2.9.8 try to do less setup for you, so they may be easier to modify than Dachstein, which tries to do everything for you. > and how do I go about burning my setup to a ROM (I don't want a hard disk in whatever box I set this up on.)? Well, there are several options. If you're OK with a flash disk, you can use one of the IDE Flash drives, or a compact-Flash card and a CF to IDE adaptor. You can also use something like the M-Systems Disk-On-Chip (you can get ISA/PCI plug in cards that support DOC parts). If you actually want ROM's (ie something that can't be overwritten in-system), you'll have to start looking around at the various embedded vendors...I think you can get ISA (maybe PCI) cards with a bunch of ROM sockets...make sure you can talk to the thing with linux before you buy one, however, or you'll be writing kernel driver code. Correctly formatting your romdisk image, breaking the image into pieces, and burning each OTP ROM is left as an excersize for the reader :-) Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
