Thanks for your replies, but these are not what I am looking for. I was hoping to find a "Standalong product", an External modem that I can plug into a router or switch so that it can dialup an ISP and everybody in the office can use it over the network without having to install anything else on their computer and so I don't have to configure anything else on their computer besides networking with DHCP. I also don't want to setup another computer, linux or windows, that has the modem in it or connected to it to use as the router. This should be a "stand alone product".
Thanks Steve
At 12:19 PM 10/14/2004, you wrote:
On 19:32 Oct 14, 2004 Steve Buehler <steve@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Has anybody heard of a dialup modem that is a >standalone product with a network connection, so that it will dialup >a standard phone number (of an ISP) and allow everybody on our >network to share that connection on the network? Most of our > machines are windows, but we do have 3 redhat linux servers on the > network too.
Any Linux system and any Windows 2000 or later system can do what you need. I think Win98SE can do it too, but I wouldn't put an important service like this on a Win98 box.
The Windows service is called Internet Connection Sharing, and in Linux you'd use iptables or ipchains to implement NAT and firewalling for the same effect.
I'd recommend a standalone Linux box with a minimal installation for this. If you using a 2.4 kernel, search the web for info on implementing NAT with iptables.
--Tony
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