Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Lale
Marty Landman wrote: I'm currently running Debian 3.1 - my default /etc/motd starts with the line: Linux penskefile 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux My Windows XP workstation is currently my lan gateway box, also running Zonealarm. Would like to move the cable mo

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Fernando Augusto Bender
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 20:56 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:15:40PM -0300, Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:47 +0100, Doofus wrote: > > > Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > > > > > > >Well, formerly straight cables were used to connect DTE to D

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:15:40PM -0300, Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:47 +0100, Doofus wrote: > > Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > > > > >Well, formerly straight cables were used to connect DTE to DCE. > > > > > >DCE-DCE or DTE-DTE shall be connected cross-over. > > >

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Fernando Augusto Bender
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 23:43 +0100, Doofus wrote: > Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > > >On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:47 +0100, Doofus wrote: > > > > > >>Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 15:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Doofus
Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:47 +0100, Doofus wrote: Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 15:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Fernando Augusto Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Something I missed... do your Debian box

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Fernando Augusto Bender
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:47 +0100, Doofus wrote: > Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > > >On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 15:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > >>Fernando Augusto Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Something I missed... do your Debian box has an ethernet port? >

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 17:38 +0100, Doofus wrote: > Is ipcop still in development? Yes, very much. 1.4 came out last year, and is currently at patchlevel 10. > I well remember the birth of the ipcop > project - a direct result of all the sordid, nasty goings on in the > smoothwall community. Af

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Doofus
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 21:44 -0700, David Christensen wrote: Rather than "roll your own", you could use one of the purpose-built firewall/ router Linux distributions. (Such may also exist for (Free|Net|Open)BSD.) I've used both IpCop and Smoothwall; both support various

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Doofus
Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 15:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Fernando Augusto Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Something I missed... do your Debian box has an ethernet port? I believe your Cable Modem does have an ethernet port as well. If it is so, your j

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Fernando Augusto Bender
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 15:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Fernando Augusto Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Something I missed... do your Debian box has an ethernet port? > > I believe your Cable Modem does have an ethernet port as well. > > > > If it is so, your just connect them with an

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 15:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Not cross-over cable. Or maybe it depends on cable modem? Mine works > with a patch (straight) cable. I can't speak for cable modems (don't have cable here) but many dsl modems and routers are autosensing. My Netgear modem came with a str

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 03:51:35PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Fernando Augusto Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Something I missed... do your Debian box has an ethernet port? > > I believe your Cable Modem does have an ethernet port as well. > > > > If it is so, your just connect them

Re: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
Fernando Augusto Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something I missed... do your Debian box has an ethernet port? > I believe your Cable Modem does have an ethernet port as well. > > If it is so, your just connect them with an cross-over 10BaseT cable, > and you deploy your security measures, a

RE: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Fernando Augusto Bender
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 13:20 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 21:44 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > Rather than "roll your own", you could use one of the purpose-built > > firewall/ > > router Linux distributions. (Such may also exist for (Free|Net|Open)BSD.) > > I've used b

RE: newbie gateway question

2006-04-23 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 21:44 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Rather than "roll your own", you could use one of the purpose-built firewall/ > router Linux distributions. (Such may also exist for (Free|Net|Open)BSD.) > I've used both IpCop and Smoothwall; both support various kinds of WAN links, >

RE: newbie gateway question

2006-04-22 Thread David Christensen
Rather than "roll your own", you could use one of the purpose-built firewall/ router Linux distributions. (Such may also exist for (Free|Net|Open)BSD.) I've used both IpCop and Smoothwall; both support various kinds of WAN links, including USB modems: http://www.ipcop.org/ http://smoothw