[Cialug] Router Building

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I may look at it, however, I have a perfectly working (and may I add quick)
coyote linux floppy in it now.  Coyote impressed me, five minutes to setup and
now I have ssh/webmin config and it even does name caching (which seems to be
useless as the nameserver that I am using is very close).
This way I can use that hard disk in another machine for more useful purposes
like network file storage.  Whee!  Another 4GB of hard disk space!  

Quoting Dan Hockey <icepuck1701@mchsi.com>:

> Chris Hilton wrote:
> 
> >I'm currently trying to setup a simple router with dhcp.  Currently, I
> >have attempted to use freebsd with isc3-dhcp server.  I am able to get
> >machines to dhcp, so they get addresses from the machine.  The machine
> >is working on the net (the router that is).  I can ping from each
> >machine to router (although I haven't tried two machines within the
> >network, other than the router), and from the router to the machine.
> >But, if I try and ping any address outside of my addresses
> >(192.168.0.0/24) it says network not connected or something to that
> >effect without any attempt to actually send packets.
> >So I looked at the machines routing table, and sure enough it doesn't
> >have an entry for default.  So I added one, and that just makes it send
> >pings without ever getting a response.
> >
> >At this point I don't really care how I get this thing to work as a
> >router, I just want it to work.  I'm in no way attached to using fbsd,
> >so if anyone knows of an OS where it's EASY to setup a router please
> >tell me.  Something with a webtool would be awesome!
> >Or if someone has a good tutorial (all the ones I've found are useless,
> >some have directions that don't even work) it'd be nice.
> >
> >Any suggestions of using Gentoo will be ignored; it's not funny or cute,
> >don't suggest it please ;).  And don't suggest a SOHO router either, I
> >have two and both of them freeze up on Friley's network.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >--Chris
> >
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> have you looked at clark connect? its based on red hat 9.
> -dh
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