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Greg Nangle wrote:
> 
> cvxmck@mailbox.uq.edu.au wrote:
> >
> > I'm configuring my linux box as a web server/router for our Netware
> > lan.
> > I've finally got ppp connected (and what's more, I even understand
> > some of it!)  but the only way I can talk to the world is to manually
> > "route add default gw x.x.x.x dev ppp0".  It doesn't happen even
> > though I've got the defaultroute line in my pppd script (as per the
> > HOWTOs).
> > Also, I can ping and nslookup the world once I'm connected, but I
> > can't access past the linux box with Netscape running on a Windows
> > box.  Netscape just times out.
> > Here's a mud map.
> >
> > ---------------internet----------------
> >      |
> >      |
> >    ISP
> >      |  (ppp dialup)
> >      |
> >   Linux Box
> >      |
> >  ----------------Netware 4.1 Lan-------- DOS/Win ---
> >
> > I can access my own www page running on Linux box, but won't access
> > past the linux box.  But I can ping and nslookup from linux to the
> > internet.

Hi Greg,

I have been undertaking the same configuration at the Baulkham Hills
TAFE college. On the Linux Server I have no problem with the ppp0
being added to the route so I can't add much to assist you there,
however the second problem you have with IP / Netscaping, well
I have set up SQUID a http cacher which talks over the ppp link direct
to our ISP, and retrieves the pages necessary, adds them to Linux
disk cache, forwards the pages to the originating client, and has
the pages on cache for other students at lightning speeds rather than
at the contentious baudrate of the ppp connection. 

       Squid Internet Object Cache http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/ 
       Daily usage statistics for Squid Internet Object Cache - needs
Perl 5.x 
       Squid FTP mirror sites in Australia are: 
              Australia:
http://electraglide.geog.unsw.edu.au/packages/squid/ 
              Australia: ftp://ftp.tas.gov.au/unix/squid/ 
              Australia:
ftp://www.unimelb.edu.au/pub/cwis/servers/unix/squid/ 
              Australia: ftp://ftp.mel.sprint.com.au/pub/unix/www/squid 

I have found the UNSW and Sprint sites best throughput from my ISP (zip) 



For news and mail you will have to set up IP Masquerading, which will
"copy" each IP packet from each client with the Linux box IP sequence
so it can talk with the ISP.  The HOWTO gives a better description.
Alternatively, its probably better to set up a INN news server on the
Linux box so at least the teaching staff can nominate which newsgroups
can be accessed, and this method also takes more less administrative
efforts. 


Additionally, I installed the ncpfs (Novell File System) on the Linux
Server and I wrote a couple of shell scripts so that Linux users can
send printouts to the Novelle Print Servers, and for the teaching 
staff, remote connections to the Novell disk volumes in the Novell
Servers.

I hope this assists you.  You may be interested in looking at our
Sydney Linux Users Group web site at : http://www.slug.org.au

Cheers Grahame