On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 23:51:15 +0800 "frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dunno about some ISP's, but our ISP wants us to have our own DNS servers, > webservers, and even mail servers if we want.... > > If you fancy some fiddling, I'd do something along the lines of NAT > (Network Address Translation) routed over PPP... > > that way, the ISP is unlikely to know you are even doing it. (also known by > sum as Internet Connection Sharing). you then will not have to assign the > each a real IP address. (NAT will allow you to give them a private IP > address. eg 192.168.0.8) > > you will need a couple of phone lines.. and a couple of modems.. (assuming > your users are allowed to be on at the same time.) > > but it won't be all that common, so you will have to do some hacking. (one > of the free "floppy distos" does this I believe.) > can't remember which one though. > > rgds > > Franki <snip> This one works with two modems: http://www.freesco.org/ : FREESCO (stands for FREE ciSCO) is a free replacement for commercial routers supporting up to 3 ethernet/arcnet/token_ring/arlan network cards and up to 2 modems. It runs on very old hardware (6 Mb RAM, i386, no hard disk required IIRC). HTH, -Frans
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