Stand-Alone Masqing Boxes

Stand-Alone Masqing Boxes

Since we've acknowledged that you have more than one machine in your house, I have to recommend setting up a dedicated IP Masquerading box. You don't need anything big. A discarded P75 with a few hundred megabites of disk space is plenty. My Masqing host is a Pentium 75 with 16MB of RAM and 350MB of disk space. It's always been much more than I really need (though I will say that when compiling a new kernel on the firewall, I can detect a slowdown in the network). One could use a minimal Linux distribution like Trinux, and do away with the hard drive entirely. But Trinux ( http://www.trinux.org/ ) and the Linux router project ( http://www.linuxrouter.org/ ) are both beyond the scope of this chapter.

I recommend that your stand-alone router have one Network Information Card (NIC) for your internal network and one NIC for your external network (if you're doing this over a modem, skip ahead and look at the next section). There are a variety of very usable $10 1/100 PCI Ethernet NICs available. Head over to your local SuperMegaMicroComputerMaxHutDepot, and pick up as many as you need.

 



Multitool Linux. Practical Uses for Open Source Software
Multitool Linux: Practical Uses for Open Source Software
ISBN: 0201734206
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 257

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