Thanks, I've got garbage lying around that I can probably get 128M for. It might be overkill, but here it is. One of the boxes is a 333MHZ so it should be plenty. Does it need a hard drive or can I just boot it off a floppy for this sort of thing. None of my garbage has hard drives anymore, but I'm sure I could come up with a hard drive. Rejean Proulx Visit my family at http://interfree.ca MSN is: rejp at rogers.com Ham License VA3REJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 10:14 AM Subject: Re: RFC on solution to Rejean's situation > I'd say the router should probably have at least 32mb possibly 64. > I've seen a pentium 133 act as a router for about 25 or so computers > all making heavy use of the internet and connecting to each other > using smb shares. > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:59:57PM -0600, Luke Davis > wrote: > > Hello, folks > > > > After talking to Rejean about solutions to his situation, we came up with > > the following. I would like comments from the users experienced with this > > sort of thing, about whether our solution will work as I believe... > > > > Now, the groundwork, and useful information summary: > > > > 1. The network consists of many Windows machines, and a single Linux > > machine. > > > > 2. The Linux machine is a public access server for web, mail, and FTP, > > and a private access server for samba. > > > > 3. The internal network is switched. > > > > 4. There is both a cable internet connection, and an ADSL internet > > connection. Both of these are necessary for their own reasons. > > > > 5. The windows portion of the network should use only the DSL connection. > > The Linux side should use only the cable connection. > > > > 6. The Windows and Linux boxes must communicate for purposes of samba. > > > > 7. The current configuration is this: > > The network of switched Windows boxes, go through the DSL router. > > The Linux box goes through a router, which connects to the cable modem. > > The Linux box, has a second card, which links it to the Windows network. > > This is not ideal. > > > > So here is the proposed solution, to solve all problems of security, > > compatibility, connectivity, and so on... > > > > 1. He sets up an older computer, as a dedicated firewall/router, running > > one of the tiny Linux floppy distributions, which exist for this exact > > purpose. > > > > 2. This box would have four interfaces, configured as follows: > > eth0: cable modem. > > eth1: ADSL modem. > > eth2: Linux server. > > eth3: Windows network. > > > > 3. Eth0 would accept traffic for, and outgoing traffic from, eth2. > > Eth1 would accept traffic for, and outgoing traffic two only, eth3. > > This creates a box which is basicly split, into a Windows router, and a > > Linux router. > > > > 4. The Windows side, would accept no inbound connections (that is: > > through the ADSL modem), accept those desired by the Windows network--that > > is: related connections to those established by it. It'll be doing one to > > one NAT, and firewall duty. > > > > 5. The linux side, will have connections related to anything it creates, > > as well as incoming connections to its services. > > > > 6. Either (A) private samba connections can be permitted between eth2 and > > eth3, with the modems being none the wiser; or (B) a separate connection > > for samba use, can be created either between the switch and the > > routing box, or it can be made from the switch, directly to the Linux box. > > > > Questions include: > > > > 1. Will this work as well as I believe it will? > > > > 2. How much memory will this routing box need, given a large quantity of > > data transfer per day? > > > > 3. What else might we not be considering for this? > > > > 4. Is this overkill? > > > > Thanks for any comments, and for reading this novel. > > > > Regards, > > > > Luke > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
