I'm new to the whole LEAF / LRP arena, but an old programmer. Started my first ISP with a single Linux/486DX4-100 box a while ago, sold it, and now have a dozen machines running at my home/office. I have a few questions. I read what documentation I could find, but most of the sites appear to be down/moved (c0wz, etc).
My hardware is an older 486-dx4100, with 4 NETGEAR FA311 PCI cards, 2X 210Meg IDE drives (in case), generic ISA video, serial / parallel. 64Meg RAM I have ISDN with fixed IP's running through an old Firewall box, feeding a DMZ with 2 servers and a subnet of masqueraded windoze boxes. The new LEAF box will replace that older Firewall, and allow me to switch to a Cable modem. I hope to get the new one operational, and move things over a bit at a time before axeing the old box. Thats why I have 4 ehternet cards (eth0=CABLE, eth1=ISDN, eth2=DMZ, eth3=MASQ) I will have 5 fixed IP's on the CABLE connection when I get it all done. (GW/eth0, DMZ/eth2, 3Xservers in DMZ) I have D/L'd several versions of the project, most recently Dachstein V1.0.2. 1) Which version should I be playing with? Security is my main concern.. 2) The Ethernet cards came with a fa31x.o file, but it generates lots of errors when included in the module area. Tulip.o seems to generate less errors, but still a few. Which module should I be using? 3) Where do I get ipcfg, route, and the other required tools to troubleshoot this whole process? I don't believe LINUX is seeing any of the cards. dmesg lists the tulip module banner as the last line in the startup process. 4)Will I have to create yet another machine just to compile kernels if I want to use the IDE drives, and the network cards? Thanks for the boost. Once the basics are running, the firewall, etc should be a straight forward port from the existing linux box. (ipchains) If ya wanna flame me, please do it off-line at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and not on the list...Suggestions can be sent to the same address. Harold Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by NW.NET's MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Stuff, things, and much much more. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
