Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 04:37:29 -0600 From: "justin honold" <jhonold@primary.net> To: "questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: riddle me this Message-ID: <000301be67bd$7342f380$0201a8c0@justin.freebsd>
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i live in the st louis metropolitan area, and we have cable internet service available to us. i would prefer to use dsl for many reasons, but unfortunately it won't be available here for some time. our current solution is not bidirectional -- it uses modem for the uplink and 3com's cable modem vsp for downlink. this product only has (and probably only will) a driver for win9x. they actively discourage use of proxy servers, and go so far as to check for the standard ones via tcp requests (eg wingate, sygate, etc). i have proven wingate to work on a number of clients' machines, but i'm concerned with win9x's security (eg getting locked up because i decided to use irc), and i want to be able to provide services if i see fit, even if it's only with a modem uplink. i want freebsd. my question is this: assuming that the 3com drivers will be able to detect connections/disconnections using a ppp -aliased connection, would i be able to hack my way through nat to get a sitation like this? [1] freebsd has the modem, maintains the internet connection, and shares it via ppp -alias (or nat if necessary) [2] win9x has the cable modem and runs wingate as a proxy server [3] freebsd uses win9x as a gateway so it can download using cable i'm relatively sure (drivers willing) that i could ppp -alias the modem connection and use wingate to serve my lan, but that would leave my freebsd box without a fast downlink. would there be a way i could tell freebsd to use win9x's gateway to download, but not to upload? if i pull this off, there's no way charter would be able to detect any services running, because i could just shut them off (currently my only open port is 23, and i could move that to a high-range port that probably wouldn't be scanned). i don't feel particularly guilty about doing this because they're using a win9x-only solution, they don't provide services for proxy servers even if you offer to pay extra, and the hidden costs are a mess ($100 for installation on a win9x machine, which HAS to be done -- this despite the fact that i have istalled these devices on miscellaneous sites and helped them resolve driver issues via troubleshooting), they force you to get cable television (which i don't care about, and REALLY won't care about when i get a fast connection), they force you to lease the crappy cable modem, etc. this could be a fun project for me. what do you think? :D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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