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On 7 Nov 1996 11:35:03 GMT, rwi@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (Ross Irvine)
wrote:

>Hi All,
>	I have a BIG question here. At work I have 8 offices connected to 
>a central centre via 33.6k dialup modems (these modems are basically 
>setup to send file, there is no actual netware/network connection between 
>these, just basically zmodeming updated files). All offices are running a 
>novell 
>network (no TCP/IP install yet) same with the central server. Note there 
>is currently NO connection at all between these servers.
>
>What I want to do, is to get an IP address for the central centre and 
>then allow all users access to the internet.
>
>I was thinking of have the ip address on a linux server in the central 
>system with maybe a linux server at each office accessing the main linux 
>server.
>
>So if someone on a PC in an office wants access to the internet the route 
>would look like this :
>
>PC -> Office Linux Server -> Modem at office ----- Modem at central 
>centre ->Linux Server at central office -> Modem (or ISDN) to 
>internet service provider.
>
>Now, what I would like to know is, Is this at all possible on such a 
>large scale. 
>
>I'm not new to linux and have been using redhat for a few years now, and 
>I'm pretty up to date in novell too (btw these are 3.12 servers..)
>
>I've got as far as knowning that I'll need TCP/IP on the workstations but 
>I can't assign them an IP address as I only have 1. And getting an IP 
>address for each workstation would be too much hassle (read : cost)
>
>So basically ANY information would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Many thanks for any help/guidence you could give me.
>
>Regards.
>
>-- 
>Ross Irvine                        E-Mail    : rwi@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au
>Computer Science Department,       Phone GSM : +61 419 565 232
>RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.        Nokia 2110 FAQ Creater, see below for WWW.
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First let me say I have no expertise with your modem configuration and
cannot comment about that side.

You can definitely assign IP addresses to each of your internal
machines. --> use 192.168.x.x.  
These ranges have been reserved for private use and even if a stray
packet escaped onto the net it would be killed instantly at the first
gateway.  You can download the ip stack from novell. It's a dos based
TSR that sucks about 34kb in its current implementation.

You do need a valid IP for your gateway either an officailly
registered one of your own or one assigned by your ISP.

You can use your linux box as the gateway and it will do all the
routing for you. You could also use your netware servers for this as
well. We use our Netware servers as routers across the various subnets
although we use a combination of cisco routers and unix boxes to
handle the internet connection.

If you want to use your linux box as your internet gateway start with
the O'Reilly Linux Netork Administartor's Guid and move on to some of
the other "most excellent" O'Reilly books.

Rohan McElwee (rmcelwee@pcug.org.au)
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