re: Need some help getting DSL connected in

2002-07-01 Thread Alan Womack
I now have iptables up and running, the net connection is shared throughout the house again! Between your hints, a couple of files sent my a friend, some issues with the bash shell, some pam.d issues, and the ip masq howto it is working just fine. Next few days will try to figure out how to ti

Window manager in Gnome 2.0

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Rose
i've got a Gentoo linux box here, i figure it'll teach me a lot, and i have a question about Gnome 2 How in the heck do i change my window manager? i installed metacity, intending to try it out, but i can't find a facility in Gnome to alter the settings for the WM. In my old Mandrake install

Re: Need some help getting DSL connected in

2002-07-01 Thread Chuck Gelm
Howdy, Y'all: Add another ethernet card to one of the 4 computers on the hub. and it can be your 'server/router/firewall'. Have the 'server/router/firewall' route from 192.168.0.x<>192.168.1.x. This doesn't consume additional ports on your hub. telephone-line -> DSL -> eth0-server/router/firewa

re: Need some help getting DSL connected in

2002-07-01 Thread Ray Olszewski
OK. This additional info makes it pretty easy to advise you. (In contrast to your practice, my responses below follow each item, not precede prior discussion of it.) At 09:48 AM 7/1/02 -0700, Alan Womack wrote: >It's not actually a DSL router, but just a DSL modem capable of being >hooked to e

Re: Security question

2002-07-01 Thread Gavin Laking
On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 17:52:52 +0200 Oliver Ob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Linuxers... > > I would like to learn more about "Linux and security". > > What (useful links also appreciated) sources for reading > and mailinglists can you advise? > Whenever I want to learn something new, I type

re: Need some help getting DSL connected in

2002-07-01 Thread Alan Womack
It's not actually a DSL router, but just a DSL modem capable of being hooked to ethernet directly. My current hub only has 4 ports, and all 4 are in use before the modem arrived. The modem does indeed to nat and uses PPPoA encapsulation for it's VPN portion from my system to MSN via qwest.

Security question

2002-07-01 Thread Oliver Ob
Hi Linuxers... I would like to learn more about "Linux and security". What (useful links also appreciated) sources for reading and mailinglists can you advise? Thanks! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤=Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html