Fred:
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From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, August 06, 2000 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: Diald for morons?
>On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 11:59:06AM -0400, Paul Schmidt wrote:
>> Okay List, no activity for a while, I'll add some.....
>>
>> I have two computers, one operates as a Linux server, the other as a
Windows
>> workstation, I want to move the modem from the Windows box to the Linux
box,
>> mostly to see if it can be done. I would like to move more and more
>> internet to the Linux box, like operating it as a mail server and news
>> server, as time goes on.
>>
>> Anyone know of a simple step by step guide on how to set this up, I am
sure
>> such a pass through connection is a very common occurance. If not,
anyone
>> want to write one, sort of a daild for morons. I have noticed that most
>> HOWTOs are either very specific or very old.... I don't really have much
>> time to get this working, I would have to give up, if it can't be done in
a
>> couple of hours.
>
>Well, it's probably going to take more than a acouple of hours because
>there are probably multiple things you need to do to make it all work.
>But,... imagine the feelings of self-worth you'll have after having
>learned how to make it work!
When your time is billable by the hour, you can't always afford to spend
time on something that would be nice, but isn't absolutely required.
>Here's my (somewhat vague--sorry) suggestions:
>--YOu'll want to set up IP Masquerading (IPmasq, also called NAT) on
> the Linux box that serves as you internet portal. Do this before or in
> parallel with setting up diald. Check out the IPMASQ howto document. I
> think hardly a week goes by that I don't see a pointer on slashdot or
> linuxtoday or other such site to online documents discussing
> ipmasq/diald/security for newbies. The mechanisms for IPmasq differ
> across major kernel revs, 2.0.x is different from 2.2.x which is again
> different from 2.[34].x, so you'll need to find appropriate docs for
> your kernel version.
First I want to get the Linux box to be able to get out, without needing a
console command, like ipup. Then I will deal with NAT, previous experiance
(18 years) in computers, have taught me, that doing two things at once will
ALWAYS fail. I have RH 6.1 on the Linux box, so it's a 2.2 kernel.
>--Also do a google search for "trinityOS" which is a large document
> giving a lot of info about these things.
I'll have a look for this....
>--for diald, memorize (;-) the docs that come with it, ask tons of
> questions here. Be sure to get the 0.99.x version of diald, not the
> 0.16.xx version.
Don't have time to memorize docs, given the financially motivated limitation
to the project time, I don't even have time to READ the docs. :-)
>--For a mail server you'll need to know about sendmail (or exim or some
> other sendmail replacement)
I have the "bat" book, this is part of phase 2 anyway, can you recommend a
good POP3 or IMAP4 server?
>--for a news server you'll need to know about INN (or c-news or d-news or
> some other replacement). Personally, I'm running c-news here. Why? just
> because I knew a teeny little bit about it which put me way ahead of
> trying to learn INN for a single-site-with-no-downstream-feeds news
> server. Besides, I'm told that INN is a bear to configure though I've
> (obviously) no personal experience with it. C-news is old (as far as I
> know it hasn't been updated in several years--anybody got any better
> info on this??) and it is also somewhat of a pain to set up and
> configure. D-news is, I believe, a commercial product.
Leafnode will be used here, this has already been decided, I used it once
before....
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