The main areas I wanted to test was a setup for large file transfers between myself and a second user. This second user (my sister) would not have much IT training, so it seems easier to do it all locally, rather than trying to talk someone else through all the steps over the phone. As well, it is a lot easier than tying up two people, especially for those debug sessions ;-)
I'm particularly interested in what hardware setup I need.
My current setup is a very basic firewall running Dachstein on a 486 with two nics at the end of a ADSL link from my local phone company.
My LAN consists of a couple of WinXX machines and a linux box.
My current thoughts were to use an auxiliary 4-port hub to hook up a spare machine on the outside of my network as the 'remote' end of my test setup. This machine could be running either a Winxx or linux OS. I was thinking of giving it some IP address 10.xx.xx.xx.
As this would be a very temporary setup, I'm not expecting it to critical, particularly since I only expect to run it when I'm present and monitoring it - although any extra traffic might be distracting or even misleading - especially at first. In fact, I was contemplating adding a sniffer at the outside hub, to make it easier to decide what came from where.
All my googling so far has not found anything that answers my question either way, so any suggestions or pointers will be most welcome.
TIA
Arnold
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