Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Leen Besselink wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
>
> > I thought it's clear. There are two computers - one in my home (debian,
> > slow modem connection) and one where i study (RH, fast connection).
> > Now, i can take my /var/lib/dpkg/status file, compress it (~100KB) and
> > send it to RH. There i could choose what packages i want (using dselect),
> > download them (apt-get -d dselect-upgrade), take them to my home and
> > install.
>
> Why don't you just use masqurading firewalling ?? First you need to have
> masquerading setup in your RH's kernel, then you add one rule to your
> ipchains, ipfwadm or iptables (depending on your RH's kernel version) and
> add it to the startup. Then just point your gateway on your Debian machine
> at your RH machine.
>
> This seems like a lot easier way. And everytime you want the debian
> machine to use his slow connection, change the Debian's default route over
> the modem (PPP?) link.
If i understand you properly, debian machine should use RH as proxy
server ? This doesn't change anything, because there still be slow
connection from debian to RH.
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Piotrek
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