Re: [Scottish] Need advice on setting up a Mandrake/Debian home network

2003-03-10 Thread rayH
On Monday 10 March 2003 15:52, David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: > iptables for 2.4.x kernels, apparently. > Hmm, gotta go search for some documentation. This looks like it'll be a > hassle.. :-( I have not used it, but I came across: Easy Firewall Generator for IPTables http://morizot.net/f

Re: [Scottish] Need advice on setting up a Mandrake/Debian home network

2003-03-10 Thread Ben Thorp
There are also some helpful help files at http://www.justlinux.com You might like to try the one on Routing at http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Networks/Routing.html They also have a couple on using ipchains, but nothing yet on iptables. Ben Thorp ___ S

Re: [Scottish] Need advice on setting up a Mandrake/Debian home network

2003-03-10 Thread Colin McKinnon
David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: Hi everybody, I'm trying to network two machines together to make a home network. There are two ways to allow internet access from 'salt': - either by using pepper as a (masquerading) router - running proxy services on pepper (mail, web, news, DNS,

Re: [Scottish] Need advice on setting up a Mandrake/Debian home network

2003-03-10 Thread Ben Thorp
OK - I'll try and give you a start on this. >Hi everybody, >I'm trying to network two machines together to make a home network. >One machine, >192.168.1.10pepper.viewport.lan >is the main machine, which has the connection to the internet (by modem) >and is running Debian sarge. >The other

Re: [Scottish] What's up MAC?

2003-03-10 Thread scottish+Steven . Murdoch
> Anybody know which NICs have programmable MAC addresses? Preferably > configurable under Windows as well as Linux. Extra browny points will > be awarded for cheapness ;) Due to the silliness of DECNet almost any Ethernet card will allow the MAC address to be changed. In the vast majority of

RE: [Scottish] What's up MAC?

2003-03-10 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
This might be a wild shot, and I may e talking mince (I do, often) but it's my understanding that the MAC address is read from the ROM on the card at driver start-up, this is then held in memory by the OS and it's this memory that is used as the actual MAC address. Theoretically changing this in me

Re: [Scottish] What's up MAC?

2003-03-10 Thread Martin McCarthy
> Anybody know which NICs have programmable MAC addresses? Preferably > configurable under Windows as well as Linux. Extra browny points will > be awarded for cheapness ;) No idea about Windows or prices, but: $ grep '\' linux-2.5.64/drivers/net/*.c |grep -i set linux-2.5.64/drivers/net/acenic

[Scottish] What's up MAC?

2003-03-10 Thread Colin McKinnon
Anybody know which NICs have programmable MAC addresses? Preferably configurable under Windows as well as Linux. Extra browny points will be awarded for cheapness ;) Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/