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Tony Schlemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a SuSE 6.0 server on my home network and it dials out
> automatically when someone attempts to route packets outside of the
> network. I use diald to automatically dial the modem and have some
> firewall rules that handle routing packets for the network. I have setup
> the Win95 boxes to use our ISP's nameservers and to use the Linux server
> as their gateway. With this setup, anytime someone on the network brings
> up a web browser or email client the modem dials out automatically.
>
> I'm not sure if the kind of setup I have can be done automatically
> through YaST or not.
Yes, it can. Mostly. Just set up PPP networking with demand dialling on, and
set masquerading and forwarding to start in the configuration file. there may
have been some wrinkles (I'm not the one who sorted them out) but I can
supply our files if you like.
The additional thing we did was to set up our own local domain using BIND-8
(because that's what we had the How-to for) and since we removed the stupid
typo in our reverse-DNS zone (in-arpa-addr anyone?) it's been working
perfectly. The DNS setup - and particularly the reverse DNS setup - prevents
many unwanted dialups when eg: telnetting from one machine to another. The
last thing we did of course was to use Squid for web & FTP proxying. In fact
you can use YAST to set all attempted through-connections to port 80 to, say
localhost:3128 so everyone on the network goes through the proxy whether they
want to or not. :->
--
Rachel
http://www.enlarion.demon.co.uk/
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