[PLUG] Network Configuration / Firewall question

[Charles Sliger]

The short answer is: Yes, you can do all of that.
And yes, it does depend on the little box.
You would have to be able to disable those functions that you wish to
migrate to the linux system.
-chaz
Charles L. Sliger,    Information Systems Engineer,    chaz at bctonline.com
"no matter where you go, there you are..."
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From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Russ GH
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 2:42 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Network Configuration / Firewall question

Good afternoon.

Our house network is currently connected to the Internet through a
little netgear "nat firewall" box that also handles the other end of the
wireless connection I use for the laptop. I'd like to replace the
firewall portion of this box with a linux firewall box and do some proxying
and the like.  Is it feasible to keep the DHCP on the little thing, and
let it handle the Wireless? Should I start up the DHCP daemon on the
linux box (which is where I'd like it so it's easier to make little
graphs and charts with regards to bandwidth usage)? Can the little box,
in general, do the wireless connection (and this is the tricky
question), but not the dhcp? Or does it all depend on the little box?
-Russ
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