Subject: Re: Network design
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 08:13:13 AKST
Justin Dieters wrote:
>
> Speaking of this Friday, I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as
> to help me redesign my home network at the CA friday. Give me some tips
> and suggestions.
>
Most every Friday has seen another SmoothWall box being customized :-)
> Currently I have my laptop (main computer), my server
> (enderakonline.com) and my girlfriend's Windows machine all just
> directly connected to a hub and then a cable modem.
>
> I want to add a firewall, gateway, etc to put between the cable modem
> and the internal network - was hoping for someone to help me figure out
> what I needed to do (mostly software/config stuff). Also what would I
> need to do or change to keep my server up and running while still being
> behind the firewall.. Stuff like that - mainly a crash course in the basics.
>
SmoothWall folks named the internet connection "red", the server
connection "orange", and the protected side "green". Each gets its own
NIC card.
> I am pretty sure I can pick up and old pentium 120 or 150 from work,
> which should be enough, I think? And I have a couple isa network cards
> around, which i believe work in linux. I might be able to get the
> machine by this friday, although I don't know what can be done without
> it actually being plugged into my network...
>
My firewall is just a '486-66 with 16meg (72 pin simms).
It handles four boxes nicely through a dialup connection.
> Anyway, if anyone feels up to it, let me know!
Greg Madden and Jim Gribbin seem to keep us in fresh CDs.
Fastest setup is a temporary CD-rom connect.
Best machines are the ones that can boot w/o keyboards.
Adjustments after install are done with a web browser on a machine
connected to the "green" NIC.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
Stanley Long
337-2303
> _________________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a23 : Thu Mar 14 2002 - 08:13:19 AKST