Isaac Curtis wrote:
> On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Isaac Curtis wrote:
>>
>>>>On Sunday 18 August 2002 01:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I am going to have a fast internet connection soon and would like to be
>>>>>able to provide friends/family with dialup internet access using a comp
>>>>>at my place as the server. Is this possible? What hardware do I need?
>>>>>What software do I need to learn? RTFM all you wish, I'd actually
>>>>>appreciate it, I just don't even know what I'm looking for at this
>>>>>point.
>>>>>
>>>>>Peace,
>>>>>Isaac
>>>>>
>>>>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
>>>>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
>>>>
>>>>Okay, I just read Josh Gentry's Linux Dialin Server Setup Guide
>>>>(http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers.html) which seems like it'd be fine
>>>>and dandy if I had just one modem and just one person looking to leech
>>>>off my connection, but in my case I've got two and I have to assume it's
>>>>a little more complicated. Do I need an additional modem for the extra
>>>>piggybacker? An additional phone line? I know all users dial a normal
>>>>ISP at the same number so that doesn't make much sense, and I have no
>>>>idea about just how many modems are sitting in the server room of a
>>>>local station so I really am at a very introductory level here. Any
>>>>manual referrals or straight information would be great.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Isaac
>>>
>>Isaac,
>>
>>The very first question you really need to get answered is, "Is my ISP
>>going to sit still for this?" Depending on who your cable internet
>>service is going to be, if indeed it is cable service you're going to be
>>getting, most do not allow their customers to do what you're thinking
>>about. In fact they're so anul about this that they don't even allow
>>their customers to operate their own personal webservers while connected
>>to their service. So, I have real strong doubts as to whether or not
>>you're going to be able to do what you're suggesting.
>>
>>Mark
>>a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR
>
>
> Like I said in my other email, if there's a legitimate concern about being
> caught I won't carry it forward, but I do want to set it up once just to
> learn how. My interest is in learning how to do it much more than it is
> helping out the two households who I'd like to provide free service for. I
> certainly wouldn't be charging for it or anything dirty like that, I'd just
> really like to learn how to do it so that I learn the ins and outs and the
> hardware/software tools involved. Even if all I get to do is tinker around
> for a weekend getting it setup, the gratification of learning how to do it is
> all I'm really looking for. I'm not interested in getting in any trouble (and
> certainly not in losing my cable internet!) so I won't do anything too
> rotten. Still, most every ISP, broadband or otherwise, explicitly bars one
> from sharing their connection on a home network-- and I'm sure most all of
> you do that. Six one, half dozen the other to me. I won't do anything that'd
> risk getting caught, though, I just want to learn how to do it for learning's
> sake. Peace.
>
> Isaac
yup...I smell what you're steppin in. I too have a home LAN setup with a
few machines making use of the connection AND my own mailserver running
along with a few other, ahem....things.
it can all be summed up in a word.
NAT :)
Network Address Translation. I love Iptables.
--
daRmaTTeR
Reg. Linux User #186492
"Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!"
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