Wolfgang Gill wrote:
I'm going to hijack this thread for a moment since it seems pertinent to a problem I'm having. If this is out of line, please feel free to flame or ignore me as suits the situation.On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:34:54 -0500, Alex Evonosky wrote
Wolfgang Gill wrote:
Get yourself a Router (A D-Link DI-804HV comes to mind). And let the router do
all the logging in and configuration for you.
Thats fine for a simple NAT. For granularity and QoS, packet shaping for VoIP (vonage, etc), allowing true stateful packet filtering, port forwarding, etc; IPtables is a better solution.
That's what I use as well. The features that are not required can be turned
off. I use the software firewall in Linux (Iptables) and I have one on Windows
(Not the windows crap version though) as well. But as for broadband
configuration, I find an external router is much easier to configure. And
since this one also has a 4 port switch, I can connect to other PC's on the
LAN as well. Plus mine logs on for me as well, so, I don't have to write a
script to do that for me.
Wolf -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
I have a DSL connection through QWest and a local ISP. Setting up the ActionTEC DSL modem using PPP0A and DHCP was trivial with Windows, as was the Linksys WRT54G four-port switch. Fairly painless other than the wireless, which I finally resolved to my satisfaction.
You may have noticed this is being posted from a WinXP system; this is because under FC3, installed with the DSL active, I can do simple network things like ping to, say, google or to my workplace, but cannot get a browser (firefox as delivered) or up2date or yum to work. I should have saved my routing table and other items before posting this, and presented them here for review, but did not think of it in time. I will boot up FC3 and grab that info and post it as a reply to this note.
I'm a bit confused and could use some help...
Be back soon. Chuck Sterling
Well then, never mind. Upon restarting FC3 I found everything working. It's possible, likely, that I was mistaken about the browsers not working. In the case of up2date and yum I'm fairly sure that I just did not wait long enough for anything to start displaying before giving up. There are, if you do a full install, something like 720 updates to install, and I suspect that there was preliminary processing going on before progress was displayed. I got impatient. This evening I walked away for maybe 20 minutes and found yum doing its thing when I returned. I have not configured the news and mail clients yet, so am still posting from WinXP.
Thanks if you've given this "problem" some thought; no fix needed now.
Best regards, Chuck Sterling
