Re: home lan

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Tony, the best approach, from my experience, is to find a spare machine,
say an old 75 MHz Pentium, and set it up with a pair of NICs as your
firewall and network gateway using NAT. That will hide all your other
serious machines behind some level of protection. This will allow for
gadgets such as network printers and such.

Visit the Linux Documentation project's site, http://tldp.org/ and look
for the Networking and Masquerading HOWTOs. They are really nice ways
to get up to speed. (I bootstrapped using them back with the 5.0 version
of Red Hat. Now look at me.... My hair's all gray and I'm turning into a
twisted old crone....)

{^_-}    Seriously TLDP is a WONDERFUL resource.

----- Original Message -----
From: "anthony baldwin" <mrbaldwin@school-library.net>

> Where can I find good instructions for setting up a home lan network using
my
> Lniux box for a server.  I have only linux and Mac OS machines to network.
> No Micro$lop products here.
> I took a graduate course in netwroking and only learned about protocols
(ftp, http, etc) and writes (twisted pair, etc).  I gained no real practical
knowledge on how to set up a home network.
> As I;ve mentioned, I do have my nix box and iBook sharing a dsl connection
through a compaq iPaq switch, but I want to share files and peripherals, as
well.



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