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In article <55shh7$k2s$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Ross Irvine <rwi@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>
>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.
>
>Now, what I would like to know is, Is this at all possible on such a 
>large scale. 

Never experienced it on such a grand scale, though I don't see why not.
Though if it is such a grand scale (ie number of concurrent users) you
want to consider a fast link to the net, and don't even consider a modem
if you're going to allow web browsing, ftp'ing, and such.

>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)

You can assign the IP addresses assigned for non-connected networks, and
use IP Masquerading to translate your local, non-routable addresses <-->
the one valid address.  That is what I am doing right now on this box,
though for a smaller network (4 machines).

Steve
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