[olug] Linux Recommendations?

[Dietz, John D.]

Vince,

	Thanks for the thought.  This idea did cross my mind, but as I am
reading what I previously wrote, I noticed that I did not seem to include
some important information.
	After talking to my roommates about the whole situation, it seems
that they would like to have people connect into our network so that they
can play LAN games without having to mess with things such as battle.net
(most of these portal services are blocked on campus anyways).  That leads
me to believe that I would need to setup a VPN.
	We can also connect into the campus network, probably through VPN.
Would it be easiest to setup the client on the server and let everyone on
the LAN connect to campus via the one VPN tunnel, or should each individual
connect via their own VPN tunnel.  I am aware that there are some security
issues with that idea, but this way, the server could control the bandwidth
for the VPN connection.
	I was originally thinking of setting up a Linux server with a couple
of NICs and configuring the server with some daemons for remote access.  Not
sure what you all think about this, and I would like to hear what people
have done for situations like this if at all possible.

Thanks,

John


John D. Dietz
144 Arborview Drive
Nebraska City, NE  68410-3302
Ph: (402) 873-9357
Fx: (402) 874-9572
Cell: (402) 659-3912
E-Mail: dietz_j at alltel.net / J-Dietz at cornellcollege.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: VHP3 [mailto:vhpascale3 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 9:23 AM
To: dietz_j at alltel.net; Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Linux Recommendations?

Well, if you've got access to 'broadband', or will,
you probably can just do it with a Linksys
firewall/router without the complications of setting
up a Linux server.   From there, you could run cat5 or
*gasp* a form of 802.11 to each of the roommate's
computers.   Of course you had an uncontrollable urge
to set a up a Linux server anyway, by all means go for
it.  This idea assumes you'll have access to some form
of 'broadband' Internet access.  If you don't, than I
have no clue how you could do it effectively.

Vince

--- "Dietz, John D." <dietz_j at alltel.net> wrote:
> 
> 	Next year, my College is allowing tons of people to
> live off-campus
> next year (this is a first in many, many years).  A
> bunch of us are going to
> live together next year, and each from a variety of
> computing backgrounds.
> We are going to need to share Internet access next
> year.  The College uses
> Exchange 2000 Server for all campus e-mail (I have
> no idea why, but they
> do).  I was wondering what you recommended for
> sharing Internet.  I was
> thinking of using a Linux server of some kind (since
> I am one of the more
> network savvy individuals), but I was unsure of what
> distribution to use.  I
> would like to go for easy to configure and secure.
> 	I need to set it up however so that people can use
> Outlook to
> connect to the College Exchange server.  I have
> tested this out, and it does
> indeed work, despite my first guess that it would be
> blocked by the College
> firewall.  Does anyone know what it takes to set
> this stuff up to allow
> multiple individuals Outlook and Apple Mail access
> to the Exchange server
> via one IP?  I am going to NAT the network, and I
> would like some
> recommendations.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> John D. Dietz
> 144 Arborview Drive
> Nebraska City, NE  68410-3302
> Ph: (402) 873-9357
> Fx: (402) 874-9572
> Cell: (402) 659-3912
> E-Mail: dietz_j at alltel.net /
> J-Dietz at cornellcollege.edu
> WWW: http://people.cornellcollege.edu/J-Dietz
> 
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