Cox - is 2 for 1 possible?

[John Albee]

This is how I have my home network configured.  I took my old system and had it setup as a firewall/masquerade box and it has worked flawlessly for the last 6 months.  It also is configured as a caching DNS(with the latest updates of course), which is good considering the at times rediculous response times of the @home DNS when compared to the connection speed.

John Albee


On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:19:23 -0700
"Alan Pratt" <alan@azdev.com> wrote:

> There are a number of workarounds for this. I'm on Cox and have five or six
> boxes connected. My recommendation would be to set up the Linux box as a
> firewall/masquerade box, used a non-routable IP address on the inside
> (192.168.X.X) and point the Wintel box's gateway to it. I've set several
> systems up this way and it works great. Although it's feasible to set it up
> the other way around, I wouldn't recommend it... the Wintel box doesn't
> share as well as Linux and doesn't add the firewall for free.
> 
> And yet another way to set up is to buy a personal hardware firewall...
> about $150 at Frys... and use it's Network Address Translation (NAT) to
> share out the connnection. This works great and doesn't eliminates the
> requirement of always running the gateway box to allow the other box to
> access the net.
> 
> - Alan
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Albee" <guesswho911@home.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Se of nt: Saturday, March 31, 2001 9:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Cox - is 2 for 1 possible?
> 
> 
> > Although I don't profress to know anything about windows connection
> sharing...  If I remember right you may have to go into the network
> properties and bind Internet Connection sharing to your Ethernet card that
> goes to your @home router/modem.  The preferable thing to do would be to
> setup your linux box as the gateway and have the windows system connect thru
> it.  It shouldnt take more than reading 2 or 3 HOWTOs.  With the linux
> system as the gateway, your windows box would be inherently more secure.
> >
> > John Albee
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:58:06 -0700
> > "Paul Nauman" <pfnauman@home.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I was connected via dialup to AOL through my Win98 machine with Shared
> Internet Connection turned on.  This allowed me to also access the internet
> from my Red Hat 7.0 machine.  I am now connected to Cox@home through the
> Win98 machine and would like to access the internet from both machines but I
> can not get it to work on the Linux system.
> > >
> > > Do I have to tell Cox that I am using 2 machines to get a second
> "CX9999999-a" name, and pay an additional $5.00 per month?  :-(
> > >
> > > There must be a way around this, right?  Some one please say yes. :-)
> > >
> > > I live close to GCC, will this situation be discussed at the West Side
> Plug meeting there on Apr. 24th about connecting Linux to the internet?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help setting this up.
> > >
> > > Paul Nauman
> > >
> >
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