🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all.

Been up and running with linux for a few months now and I would like
to use linux as a firewall/proxy for my home lan.

I have 3 machines, a dedicated linux box, a winnt server, and a win95
workstation.
I currently run the proxy service from a winnt server machine, using
wingate, a proxy server.

When I initially wanted to set up a system to put all my machines on
my home lan on the net thru one modem, I was remember being told by my
isp that a proxy server was the only way to to accomplish this, as
they were not prepared to update thier routing tables to forward
packets to my second and third machines, without a cost being
incurred.

I would like to know if this is still the case, if I now use linux
instead of nt4, to forward packets to my second and third machines. I
know linux can act as a firewall/proxy and do ip forwarding?  But if I
choose ip forwarding will my  my isp strill need to upgrade thier
routing tables? 

Or is ip masquerading a better option?

Can someone please clarify for me?

Reply via email would be appreciated, and I will forward to usenet if
you haven't already done so.

							Rossco

Brisbane
Australia