Thanks, that looks like a pretty good solution for the firewall. After noodling some more I guess I would also need to set up DNS to forward requests to the ISP, but I'm still not clear how you get it to act as a router. Which service does that? Maybe I'll just try installing from scratch and see what the available options are. -- Phil Mattison http://www.ohmikron.com/ Motors::Drivers::Controllers::Software ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Dayley To: Main PLUG discussion list Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:53 AM Subject: Re: Dial-up Gateway Router/Firewall > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mattison wrote: > > Hi Gurus, > > Looking for suggestions: I want to set up an old PC with an external > > Hayes-compatible dial-up modem to act as a Gateway Router/Firewall to allow > > multiple computers on a local network to access the internet via dial-up > > account. Should be able to do this with one NIC and the modem I guess. Tried > > using a Windows box with Internet Connection Server. It actually worked but > > after one reboot my linux web development box wouldn't talk to it any more. > > Windows is like a woman on PMS: if she's having a problem she won't tell you > > how to fix it. I think I can figure out how to set up the DHCP server but > > I'm a little fuzzy on how to configure the modem and Router/Firewall > > functions. I was using a Netgear Gateway Router with a cable modem but > > switched to dial-up (long story) and now miss the ability to access the > > internet from any machine in the LAN. Manual intervention to dial out is ok. > > Any tips and hints would be appreciated. > > http://ipcop.org/ > > Used it for years without problems. Easy to setup. Easy web GUI > administration. Great community support. > > Alan > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss