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Winroute vs. hardware router?

Jone Tytlandsvi

Winroute vs. hardware router?

by Jone Tytlandsvi » Sat, 09 Nov 2002 02:25:30

I'm having second thoughts about this loopback thing, and suspect my Draytek
Vigor to support loopback after all.

If I ping my own public IP, I get <1ms.
If I type my public IP into my browser, I get the management interface, even
though it's set not to allow management from the Internet.
Other posts in this thread indicate that if the router doesn't do loopback,
I would not be able to reach my LAN using the public IP from the inside. I'm
sure I can do this, I can reach my FTP server, I've just don't tested with
GPL. (I can test with GPL next weekend.)

So either my router support loopback or my ISP does. Is there something I
can do to find out for sure?

Jone.

Uwe Schuerkam

Winroute vs. hardware router?

by Uwe Schuerkam » Sat, 09 Nov 2002 18:41:38


> Goy-

> Thanks for this info!  The Small Net site has a lot of really good
> information on it.

Hi Alison,

there are several one-floppy Linux solutions out there which
will do all you asked for in your post, and more, and usually
for free. If you have an old box lying around (486dx33 upwards
should be fine) you won't even need a hard disk, and most of
these distros come with a windows configuration client so you
don't even have to boot into Linux in order to configure it.

Names that come to mind are coyote linux and fli4l. You might
try googling around for those.

HTH,

Uwe

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Uwe Schuerkam

Winroute vs. hardware router?

by Uwe Schuerkam » Sat, 09 Nov 2002 18:44:35


> Guys-

> My current gateway/router computer is a homebuilt P-166 with 32 mb of
> memory and a 3 gb hard drive.  It also serves as an FTP server for
> replays from my GPL server and a printer server for an HP 720C.

> My understanding is that Win2000 needs a lot more computer (especially
> memory) than that to run well.  Is that correct?

well, now there's a perfect rig for setting up a linux router /
ftp server / print server / Windows file server if ever I saw
one!

As a software engineer you should have no problems configuring
this machine under any recent linux distro in text mode.

Cheers,

uwe

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