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| Newer page: | version 15 | Last edited on Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:30:24 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
| Older page: | version 14 | Last edited on Thursday, June 24, 2004 5:51:04 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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Connects to the Internet (via ADSL, dial-up, etc), provides [NAT] and 'masquerading' of the connection to any number of computers on your network. Provides a [FireWall]. Allows you to provide a local MailServer, a WebServer, [DynamicDNS], [WebProxy] any of the useful things you might want to do with any server machine.
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-!!Why would I want to use one?
+!! Why would I want to use one?
I quote my parents as a great example; they have a computer, my brother has a computer, and they were all discussing getting ADSL. The parents wanted control of the connection, my brother wanted to be able to use the DSL without their computer being on, and I wanted them not to buy a Windows-only modem :)
Otherwise, you might just want to learn about Linux, or be able to ensure the connection at your house will still be up when your main PC has gone to a LAN, or crashed, or is turned off at night, or whatever myriad of other reasons you might have.
-!!What you will need
+!! What you will need
* An old computer - anything from a 486 up is permissable, but if you have to use a 486, chances are someone can give you a Pentium class [CPU] for free.
* CD-ROM drive
* Network card
* DebianLinux CDs
-This introduction is written with the relatively new Linux user in mind. It is written for DebianLinux because of the ease of installing software. This task is perhaps easier to provide under another distribution (see [SelectingADistribution] for a bit of background) - if you can figure all this out, you can change distribution.
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-See SomePeopleChangeTheirDistributionsAsOftenAsOthersChangeTheirUnderpants
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+This introduction is written with the relatively new Linux user in mind. It is written for DebianLinux because of the ease of installing software. This task is perhaps easier to provide under another distribution (see [SelectingADistribution] for a bit of background) -
- if you can figure all this out, you can change distribution.
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-!!Step 1. Install Linux
+!! Step 1. Install Linux
-This section is being left terse at the moment; theres a lot of things
to be said about the best ways of DrivePartitioning
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When you're finished this stage you should have a basic Linux installation.
+This section is being left terse at the moment; make sure
to read PartitioningSuggestions
. When you're finished this stage you should have a basic Linux installation.
-!!Step 2. Update your /etc/apt/sources.list and dpkg database
+!! Step 2. Update your /etc/apt/sources.list and dpkg database
See AptSourcesList for information about what this file is and what you might want to put in it.
When this is done, perform
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Comment for the end - IPCop [http://www.ipcop.org] is a nice tidy linux firewall install, which deals with dial-on-demand or always-on connections. It runs better on a pentium machine, but 486 is fine too. IPCop sets up squid for web caching, a caching dns server, and standard stuff like an internal DHCP server.
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