[luau] Re: Configuring Router

[Dustin Cross]

I switched to DSL so I wouldn't have to deal with this stuff.  Sandi and I
run our our mail and web server for personal use and it would suck to have
RR shut us down and not get e-mail until I got a new provider!

Dusty


> I dont know if anyone here on a RR cable modem has ever had their
> packet sampled by RR.  They check how much traffic your receiving and
> when they figure your setting up a server at home they do two things:
> 1. Contact you for an explaination.  The fact your downloading a lot of
>    graphics files doesnt cut it anymore because they know...
> 2. Cutdown your bandwidth to a miserable point where you have to
>     discontinue running a server. I know this from experience with
>     just trying to setup a W2K Adv FTP server for practice only.
> 3. Cutoff your account completely and put you on a list of violators.
>    You will have to use your wifes name and new address before
>    you can reconnect to RR.  This news came from a FLEX guy.
>
> On Wednesday 24 July 2002 09:49, you wrote:
>> >Message: 1
>>
>> From: Dan George <linuxdan at hawaii.rr.com>
>>
>> >Interesting. So you can actually run a server at home without being
>> > detected by RR.  Would like to know more details on that one.
>>
>> The USB-USB networking is available in the lastest 2.4 kernel
>> (2.4.18). You need to build a new kernel with the feature in by
>> selecting
>> experimental in 'Code Maturity Options' from make menuconfig.
>> This will make 'USB-USB Networking cable device support' appear
>> in the USB section.
>>
>> Your USB port then becomes usable as /dev/eth1.
>>
>> Of course, this by itself doesn't give you firewalling/masquerading
>> capability
>> that makes your internal LAN undetectable by RR.  But it does give you
>> 2 network ports (one internal & one external).
>>
>> Then it's a matter of installing iptables and using MonMotha's scripts
>> to do masquerading. See:
>>
>>  http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/MonMothaReferenceGuide
>>
>> Tim Burgess
>>
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