[NTLUG:Discuss] Internet Connection Sharing

[Minh Duong]

Dennis,

Do you want to use your Slackware machine as a
fulltime router or just a gateway to the internet?  It
is already a functioning server or a test machine?

I'm new to this but here's my understanding of the
problem.  If you want your slackware machine to be the
gateway and serve other functions to the internet, you
want it also to be at least the DNS server and
firewall.  For security reasons, I would not put
anything sensitive on it.  On dial-up, you are less
likely to be attacked than on broadband, but why risk
it?  www.linux.org may have some how-tos for you. 
wvdial is probably the software package you would use
for dial up.

If you can spare the machine to be nothing but a
router/firewall, then leaf.sourceforge.net has some
packages that turns the machine into a dedicated
router/firewall.  I have a Pentium 200 in my network
that does this.

Minh

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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:19:19 -0600
From: Dennis Myhand <dmyhand at zamigo.net>
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Hello All:

I am running Slackware 8.1 on one machine with a
modem.  I have another 
machine running Mandrake 9.0 with no modem.  Both
machines are on the 
same network and I would like to set up Dial-On-Demand
routing to let 
the Mandrake machine access the internet.  Can someone
point me toward 
a 
how-to which will help me out in this area?  Thanks,
Dennis in Victoria


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