Dial-up Gateway Router/Firewall

[Alan Dayley]

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IPCop is a turn key solution.  It does everything you have so far
described upon installation.  After you input your dial-up parameters,
it takes care of DNS, DHCP, NAT and firewall for the computers in your
local network.

Of course you can disable the service you don't need but it's all there.
 I used it for 3+ years running on a 200 MHz box for my home network DSL
connection.  We had it for more than 3 years at work serving a local
network of 50+ computers running on a 200 MHz box.  It did not break a
sweat.

It will do what you need, just try it!

Alan

Mattison wrote:
> 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 <alandd at consultpros.com>
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Dial-up Gateway Router/Firewall
> 
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>> 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

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