Alright you Linux-heads...

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Oct 20 16:12:48 2000

> I've got a couple of 486 boxen (25 mHz, 8-megs of Ram, 1.2 gig
> hard drive) sitting around the house. I'd like to make one of them
> into a Linux-based firewall for my cable modem. (I also have a copy
> of Turbo Linux available for this project)
>
> Currently I use both a PC and a Mac, and switch between them via
> a KVM switch. Both are equipped with Ethernet cards to connect into
> the cable modem. I've tried using an Ethernet cable switch to
> select either the PC or the Mac, but it didn't quite work the way I
> expected it to.

As in you have to boot fresh after switching?

> At the very minimum, I would like to be able to
> * have both the PC and Mac be able to access the internet at the same time
> * do the usual firewall stuff (e.g. keep the bad guy out. I currently
> use ZoneAlarm on the pc, and it does a decent job)

What we use here is Vicom Internet Gateway (now SoftRouter) on a Mac
to connect our 40 Windows systems to the Internet. However, since you
started this thread with wanting to do it with Linux, you need the IP
masquerading stuff for Linux; I never got that far with Linux, so someone
else will hopefully chime in here.

> I'd also like to go further, and have the Mac and PC read each other's
> hard drives (still, while keeping outside users out)

Ouch... you didn't mention what runs on the PC... assuming Windows,
I don't know of any freeware AppleShare clients for the PC. You
can use PC MacLAN, but it's just under $200.

Maybe NFS?

Regards,
-doug q
Received on Fri Oct 20 2000 - 16:12:48 BST

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