[plug] Install tonight

[Harry McNally]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:53:37 +0800 (WST) Mike Holland <myk at plug.linux.org.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> 
> > I'd assume its so he can share the connection to his internal network?
> 
> So why would you want two NICs for that?
> ie why have the ADSL modem on a separate ethernet?

Mike [Gilks] is building a firewall to sit between the ADSL modem (which has an
ethernet interface) and his internal LAN which means the second NIC on
the firewall is going to a switch/hub connected to all his other
computers.

Does your ADSL modem have USB or are you thinking of a serial 56K modem
or something, Mike [Holland] ? You're getting me confused about why you're question :)

Mike {Gilks], I've grabbed down a copy of Smoothwall 1.0 GPL that doesn't need any patches.
If you _must_ have a rebuild tonight, what about whipping that down on yer ADSL (it's 20MB),
check the md5sum for the iso, burn it, use dd to make the boot and driver floppies:
dd if=/cdrom/images/boot-1.0.img /dev/fd0 
dd if=/cdrom/images/drivers-1.0.img /dev/fd0
boot from those and and bung it on.

I couldn't make it to the meeting tonight but maybe someone could help on the debian version with some more warning.

HTH (a bit)
Harry

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