Re: 64 Kbps Leased connection - HELP
Well, your first big clue as to how the interface will work out is the
addresses you've been assigned. If you've been provided a range of 16
addresses, they're most likely giving you a subnet of a larger network with a
subnet mask of 255.255.255.224. This will provide 16 addresses, although only
14 are useable (the high address in the range is the broadcast, the low is the
network or "wire" address -- note that you can sometimes get away with using
the wire address, but this is not the recommended process).
In order to do this, they're most likely going to provide you with a router
and a DSU. The circuit will go into the DSU, the DSU will connect to the
serial port on the router. Your network will connect to the router via
whatever LAN port they provide for you. You need to setup your proxy or
whatever machine you have sitting between your network and the Internet so
that it's default gateway points to the LAN interface on the router, which
must be addressed on the same IP network as the LAN interface (ie two of your
14 available addresses are eaten by the router and the proxy).
The rest of your client machines need to have their gateway addresses set to
the private network address of the proxy machine. Basically, a client request
will go the the proxy, have it's address changed to a that of the proxy
server, the proxy will send the request to the router, which will forward the
packet to where-ever it needs to go-- this is of course gross
oversimplification.
HTH,
Rob
M K Pai wrote:
> I run a corporate intranet on a Linux server. Browsing is accomplished
> thru an apache proxy and dialup connection.
>
> We are expecting a 64Kbps leased connection ( 16 static IP addresses ) any
> day.
>
> I have no idea about how to interface it to our Linux box. If I fail, the
> boss wil give the line to WinNT - a fate worse than death.
>
> Please help .
>
> Thanx in advance.
> M. K. Pai
>
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