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Re: Creating a Linux Router???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Peatfield)
Sat Sep 14 17:12:36 1996
To: herb@co.bladen.k12.nc.us (Herb McIntyre)
cc: jp107@damtp.cam.ac.uk, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Sep 1996 16:40:21 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 22:03:25 +0100
From: Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
> giving them access to DOS lynx,email, and
> some ftp possibilities.
If that is what you want, then no need to route at all. Run a mail server and
an http proxy/cache like Squid on the Linux box, and get the rest of the
machines to talk to it. No routing no worries, plus you get the benefit of a
decent cache to speed things up.
-- Jon
