Author: Yaa101 (---.mxs.adsl.euronet.nl)
Date: 12-09-01 02:45
This is how i did it.
I am on MXStream adsl with a Alcatel Speed Touch (ex) Home.
I hacked it, well hacking is a great thing to say let's say i changed it's master behaviour and turned it into a Pro model.
Then you have a full fledged *nix machine with a microkernel, firewall, a damn fine nat/pat which works like a angel both ways, a webserver, a dns client/server, a dhcp server, a dynamic router and a telnet/cli server.
This all in a box of 200 x 170 x 30 millimeters.
In pro modus you skip your pptp tunnels and do your thing in raw ip over your DSL line and have it in a persistant mode so that when ever you have sync, you have connection.
I have put off DHCP and DNS in the device as i don't serve DHCP and hardly serve any services on my inside LAN, most servers are for the outside world for my fellow developers to collaborate in software development, yes a developers box.
I run Bind 9 DNS server for my internal DNS services, one of the few i also use internal.
It runs on a P1 Linux 2.4.8+ machine and servicable through a SSH2 connection as that box also has a SSH2 server, stealth hided for outside btw... the SSH service...
Further if money does not matter get a Communigate Pro Mail server, it saves you a lot of grief from setting up SMTP,POP,IMAP,webmail,realying, etc...
It has all in one package to become a mail provider overnight...
On my development box I have 2 Apache webservers running 1.3.22 and 2.0.28 i think... lol... further on request i put on my Jakarta-Tomcat servlet server.
FTP access to the document directories and irc server with private channel.
And way more tools such as compilers, virtual machines and interperters.
This box has exactly the same configuration in both Win2k server and Linux 2.4.10 mode...
The above Alcatel box is in fact nothing more then a linux box, a pentium 2 class will do.
This gateway machine must be a *nix machine as windows have a crippled ip stack with it's winsock implementation.
Even with the famous xp raw sockets (don't make me laugh) windows can never be a respectable gateway machine.
So if your service is inwards oriented (bringing internet inside) then choose for a linux box with either a flop solution or with a full distribution with the right servers configured.
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