Gerhard Magnus wrote:
I recently had to deal with my ISP about a connectivity problem that turned out to be on their end. (The tech referred to linux as lie-nux and insisted on doing everything in XP which I fortunately had dual-booted.) But in the process of working through this it was necessary for me to describe the way I'd set up my LAN here and he seemed incredulous. This wouldn't bother me except that I've gotten this reaction before from people in the outside world but never an explanation. So I'm asking: is there something weird about this structure? Is there some "better" or more standard setup? The DSL modem Actiontec modem provided by Quest plugs into the phone jack. The Actiontec is an older model with only one ethernet plug. Since I have four boxes, two of which are dual booting Fedora and XP, I have an ethernet cable connecting the modem to the DSL plug of a Linksys router. I then have separate cables connecting the four outlets on the router to each of the four boxes. (I did all this cabling at a time before wireless routing was as available and cheap as it is today.) Each of the six operating systems (4 linux and 2 XP) has a static IP address and each has a firewall. I have NFS running on the linux systems. There's another firewall on the router, which is currently port-forwarding only ssh and torrent data from the outside world. I thought I'd check this out before going further....
I have done this many times, as far back as I can remember so I'd think it's pretty common. I have found that some of the first-line techs can be pretty clueless, so you could force escalate to a higher level tech if you are not getting anywhere or, do the research yourself. Kind of hard to do without an Internet connection ;) My home system uses a Westell modem, in bridge mode, and is hooked to a Trendnet 300Mb/s wireless router. At another place, I have an ActionTec with Quest branding, pretty azure/blue glow lights modem. This is one is wireless but without the module and I declined the upgrade (cuz it was at rip-off prices at the time) and got a better deal for an Airlink 150N wireless router at sale prices. As with both modems mentioned abovet, the setup is to set the modems in "bridge" mode which means, all data is passed through with no restrictions. After that, just hook up the Ethernet cable from the modem to your (wireless) router's WAN connection. What's left then, is to configure the firewall settings on the router. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
