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Creating a Linux Router???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Herb McIntyre)
Sat Sep 14 16:50:27 1996
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 16:40:21 -0400
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: herb@co.bladen.k12.nc.us (Herb McIntyre)
I have a fulltime dialin (28K) access to a linux terminal
server. I have a linux box that I would like to dialin
with and use as a router. The linux box (router) would
be connected via ethernet to a 3.12 novell server. The
Novell server has 20 1meg 286 machines attached to it.The
plan is to spread this 28K bandwith among 5-10 machines
at atime - giving them access to DOS lynx,email, and
some ftp possibilities. I realize this is very primitive,
but it is to be used primarily by 11-13 year olds who would
be delighted by any type of net access.
The network that we are attaching to has 2 class
C's - 198.85.188 and 198.85,189 - currently they are using
fewer than 40 IP's all with a netmask of 255.255.255.0 they
are all on one network (198,85,188,0).
I'm currently trying to determine just what
questions I need to ask - So far I believe they are:
1) What Network number to use.
2) What Mask to use.
3) Does the main network mask need to change?
4) The linux kernel on the router is 1.2.8
how should it be compiled? I guess IP Forwarding
needs to be turned on.
5) I gather the ppp script on the dialup router
must be different than the single user variety.
Plus the pppd on on the terminal server must
be different to recognize that it is adding
a network?
6) The rc.inet files on both machines must be
altered some how....
7) Plus numerous questions I haven't thought of.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated by a bunch
of rural kids who've never experienced net access.
