On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I am not familiar with Comcast, but here are a few ideas that may get > >you there: > > > >1. When the Comcast service is activated from Windows, does it require a > >username/password to activate? Some cable providers don't "switch on > >the connection" until you are authenticated in this way. If this is the > >case, you will need some application to log you on under linux (on the > >router machine). There probably is one, but Google is your friend > >there. > > > >2. Assuming that item 1 is handled or not required, you will find that > >the cable service allocates only one IP address, so any LAN connected > >machines need to run with local addresses. To implement this, you need > >two ethernet cards in your router. The one connected to your LAN gets a > >local address - usually 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 The one connected to > >the cable modem gets its address via DHCP. Then turn on IP forwarding > >and use squid on the router to proxy the connection. That way, the > >cable network sees a single client, but your LAN has access from all > >machines. > > > >Just come back with specific questions if any of this is in a foreign > >language. > > > >HTH > >Brian > > > > > > > > Thanks for the info Brian. The only thing that's foreign to me at the moment is >Squid. Does Squid come with Mandrake 8.0 or will I need to download it first? Do you >have a URL so that I can learn more about it? > > Thanks, > Aaron Holiday > Squid is in the distro. You don't need to do much more than turn it on, but probably the easiest way to configure it is to use webmin.
HTH Brian
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