On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 07:23:54AM -0500, BT wrote: > My Router cost me $149 at compusa, the reason for the hub is the > netgear RT311 has only 1 output port, since I already had a hub. I > know there are routers out there with up to 5 outputs and they run > about $179 or so. Not sure on the price of hubs but it shouldn't be > over $30-$40 for a 10T 5 port hub, so it's your call on whether you > go a multi port router or router hub setup. [1] Drive to Dexis. [2] Go into the back room. Pick up a 486DX33/66. $30-35 Included with mine was one ISA nic and a 250MB HD [3] Buy a cheap 10BaseT ISA NIC $5-15 [4] Download Debian floppy iso's. Make boot and driver floppies. [5] Plug in 468. Insert floppy. Install Debian base system. [6] Reboot [7] apt-get install ipmasq apt-get install ssh [8] Add this line to your lilo.conf append "ether=0x280,9,eth0 ether=0x300,10,eth1" [9] Run lilo [10] Edit your /etc/network/interfaces file # External iface eth0 inet dhcp # Internal iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.0.254 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 [11] Reboot (so that your nics can be recognized) [12] Plug in cable modem ethernet crossover to external NIC. Plug in ethernet cable to hub on internal NIC. Unplug monitor, keyboard, etc. [13] SSH into the box for administration. Have fun! ** Excluded were some details on choosing correct device modules or compiling a monolithic kernel. -- Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://wookimus.net/chewie -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 233 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20001016/674b78d9/attachment.pgp -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org