Home Network... some info

["Van Allsburg, Paul" <Paul.VAnAllsburg@xxxxxx>]

See INFO WORLD April 24, THE OPEN SOURCE - NICHOLAS PETRELEY
Article on Linux based firewall software
sorry I cant file a link to the article... 
He recommends pmfirewall found at

       www.pointman.org

I found 
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html

AND

http://members.home.net/ipmasq/ to be helpful when I set mine up.

see ya,
paul van allsburg
 

-----Original Message-----
From: W Guy Finley [mailto:wgfinley@ameritech.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:17 AM
To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
Subject: Re: Computer sharing problems


At 11:11 AM 4/26/00 -0400, you wrote:
> > My only stumbling point will be getting the DSL going on the Linux box,
> > Ameritech isn't going to give me any support for that.  However, since I
> > think they're just using a ethernet connection it should be a snap once
I
> > have the network settings (domain name, network mask, DNS server, etc) 
> right?
>
>If you say so.  I've never seen a DSL connection.

Well, looks like I'm out of luck.  Ameritech uses a ATMF-25 connection and 
a PCI card.   Found the ADSL FAQ and PCI is bad news, no Linux drivers.

--Guy


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>Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
>System Administrator / Network Administrator
>Armstrong International, Inc.
>Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
>http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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