Nice work. Isn't it great the things you can do with Linux. The more you
know, the more you can do. I am impressed you did it with 6 MB of RAM.
In addition, you have successfully firewalled your internal network.
Think if you used flash RAM. You could pull that hard drive out and have
a diskless machine. I don't know how many of you have seen the WYSE terminal
that uses Linux. It has 8 megs of flash ram and no hard drive.
See these sites:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-343571.html
http://www.wyse.com/winterm/wint5000/5355se.htm
I imagine you are routing full T1 bandwidth too. It makes you wonder how
cisco can get away with charging so much for their routers.
Uhh, I imagine you turned you box into a router, because if it was a bridge,
your nic card / token ring would not have IP addresses. I suppose you could
have bridged it, and then used a more powerful machine on that IP that would
run all the services like a web server, mail server, etc.
Shall we say "There's more than one way to do it"
brian
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:31:39PM -0700, Adam wrote:
> I know everyone is dying to know....( I was probably the only who didn't know)
> But yes.....Linux will bridge (and of course masquerade) TCP/IP between Ethernet and Token Ring.
> I have to tell someone and your it :>
> I turned a little 486 compaq with a 200 MB HD and 6 MB of RAM into a Bridging, Masquerading BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Later
>
> Adam
>
> stini@pacbell.net
>
-- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
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