<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2007 3:21 PM, Leo Mauler <<a href="mailto:webgiant@yahoo.com">webgiant@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm getting conflicting answers off Google so I<br>thought I'd see if anyone here has done anything like<br>this with Ubuntu Server.<br><br>Basically I'd like to add a kind of "load balancing"<br>router to the home network. The ice storm over the
<br>last two days knocked out the cable internet, but left<br>the telephone lines intact. This has been true of my<br>home in every major ice storm in the past ten years.<br>It would be nice to have a router which had the option
<br>of sharing a dial-up connection when the cable<br>internet went out. I have a Linux-friendly prepaid<br>Internet service provider for when I travel ("Budget<br>Dialup" in case anyone is looking for Linux-friendly
<br>prepaid Internet), so there's a dialup option<br>available for home use.<br><br>What I'd like to do is stick a Linux router between<br>the cable modem and the existing wireless router. The<br>new Linux router would take Internet access from the
<br>cable modem, have a regular dialup modem setup for<br>emergency Dial-On-Demand, and then share out the<br>Internet (from whatever source) to the home network.<br>The modem wouldn't have a phone line plugged into it
<br>unless there was an actual cable outage, so there<br>would be no risk of accidentally using up the prepaid<br>minutes.<br><br>I want to have web and DNS caching to minimize<br>bandwidth usage during dialup periods, though they
<br>wouldn't be a bad idea even with the cable Internet.<br>I haven't done anything like this in awhile, so if you<br>know what I should be looking for, it would be much<br>appreciated.<br><br>I would like to use Ubuntu but I have read in various
<br>forums that the Dial-On-Demand function I need may not<br>be possible using Ubuntu's versions of pppd and other<br>software. If you know of a better solution then I'm<br>interested. I have looked at Smoothwall but it
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<br><br>I am running IPCop on an old pentium with 128MB RAM. It works well on Time Warner, and has settings for a "fall-over" to another internet connection (modem in your case).<br><br>IPCop has a lot of drivers and command sets for common modems. I used IPCop for several months on dial-up with a linux neutral ISP. It worked great.
<br><br>The great thing is that IPCop is "set and forget." Most config items can be set through it's GUI. This is a great thing if you're an idiot like me. ;) I keep telling myself that I'll learn about IP chains, etc. Until I get to this, IPCop will keep me online. All I have to do is download the updates every once in a while. Most of the update features are used through the GUI as well.
<br><br>I didn't see anything specific in your mail about why you want to use Ubuntu. If it's because Ubuntu is "easy to use", I think that you will not have an issue with IPCop. I also think that IPCop uses all "free" packages and licenses. I'm not sure though. There are also plenty of community add-ons that allow for traffic monitoring, user limiting, host black/white listing, etc. I hate to sound like a marketer, but the only thing I can think of that is bad about IPCop is that it doesn't _force_ you to learn about the underlying tech.
<br><br>I don't get on IRC as much as I'd like. But mail me if you have any Q's. <br><br>Tim AKA Bewkard<br>