cable/dsl

[Tony Hammitt]

What the heck, while we're on the subject, here's my setup:

RoadRunner cable modem -> 10/100 switch -> firewall box
                                        -> other computers

The firewall box uses masquerading to allow the others to use
the cable modem and uses ip aliasing so it only has one NIC.

All of the other computers use ipforwarding to connect to the
firewall box.

I was running every-box-for-itself, but at $10/box for extra
IP addresses, the masquerading setup saves me lots of money.

With linux, there is never any compelling reason (at home)
to have multiple NICs.  I doubt that anyone needs a lot of
extra bandwidth.  IP aliasing is ridiculously easy to set up,
so all those people who claim to need two NICs to run a
firewall are misinformed.  Once DCHP is established, run
'ifconfig eth0:1 <local IP address>'  Now you can have a
static /etc/hosts files and place to forward IP packets to.

Also, to add fuel to Brian's argument against USB, remember
that the maximum bandwidth is only 12Mb/s for all devices
put together.  Moving your mouse could slow down your
network...

Later,

Tony Hammitt

Brian Kelsay wrote:
> 
> You can have SWBell set you up w/ a nic and Cat5 setup.  There is a choice.
> If you already have a home network they give you the second nic to put in
> your box.  One guy I know that got it received a Kingston 10/100 nic from
> them.  I wouldn't get the USB setup, personally, because Linux is only
> starting to support USB ethernet and some USB devices are flaky.
> Brian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Webmaster [mailto:webmaster at nosoup4you.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:37 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: kclug - cable/dsl
> 
> Anyone know how hard it is to setup an @home cable modem or SW Bell DSL in
> linux?  I can't deside which to get.  I heard that SW Bell uses USB
> networking, and that wouldn't work too well with linux.
>