[linux-help] Re: Ethernet card setup / Gateway system

["James G." <jamesga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It sounds like you bought the same Linksys card I did. If you follow thier
instructions, it does work.

Yesterdays ACLUG meeting (Monday) delt with this topic. You can goto:

www.linuxdocs.org
and
www.linuxsecurity.com

to find all your answers ...or... you can buy a $100 router/switch box that
will do the job you want it to do with minimal fuss.

James

John Lucas wrote:

> Hello, all
>
> First off, Thank You to all of you who responded to my last posting
> [Wichita, KS dialup service providers?].  All of you brought up some good
> points that I will take into serious consideration.  I have not made up my
> mind yet, but I will likely choose one of the local ISP's.
>
> Now for my next questions: I am basically a newcomer to Linux.  I've dabbled
> at it before, but I've never really gotten into the nuts and bolts of it.  I
> would like to set up a networked Linux box that I can use as a kind of
> "gateway" between my cable modem and my LAN. (The dialup connection search
> was for a relative, in case any of you are wondering... :)  )
>
> Before we get to that, though, I haven't even figured out how to make my
> network card come up under Linux.  I have installed RedHat 7.0 Guinness on a
> Pentium 166 with 50 Megs of RAM.  The network card was not recognized when
> Linux was installed, so I attempted to install the driver myself.  Mistake,
> mainly because I really have no idea what I am doing.  I have a Linksys card
> that uses the "tulip" driver.  My card came with the tulip.o and pciscan.o
> files, and I followed the instructions for installing those on the system,
> but when it came time to compile those files, I was presented with a screen
> full of compiler errors.  Brick wall (AKA "duh", AKA "I'm lost").
>
> Now, back to the gateway server thing.  I would like to get your thoughts on
> the best way to arrange a network so that I can have multiple computers on
> line while having the rest of the internet only see one IP.  Can this be
> accomplished on a single LAN?  Or do I have to have two NIC's in the gateway
> (is that even the correct name for it?) server?
>
> I've heard people talk about "gateway servers" and NAT and "proxy servers"
> and "firewalls" etc.,  but I'm really not sure what the difference is
> between them, which one I need, or what will be required to set it up.
>
> Anyone know of any books that explain any of this particularly well? (that
> might save some of you a lot of typing!)
>
> Any help with ANY PART of the questions in this posting would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> THANK YOU again for all your help.  This list and the people who use it are
> an awesome benefit to the Wichita Linux community.   (sorry if that sounded
> a little corny...)
>
> --John
>
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