[TriLUG] Slightly OT: AOL Cable Broadband & Linux

[nroskam@rr.nc.com]

I found a new VNC client for Windows at the GNU Win II site called Tight
VNC.  The program works a lot faster.  I like the speed from the XP
Terminal Services but wanted to use something free.

Rock Roskam
Manager
Eclectic LAN
9113 Leesville Road
Raleigh, NC 27613
(919) 845-7407
rock at eclecticlan.com


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Andrew Perrin
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:43 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] Slightly OT: AOL Cable Broadband & Linux

Folks,

My in-laws are moving into a new house in Carrboro, and they've asked me
to help with computer stuff. Their criteria are:
- Keep their AOL addresses;
- Let both of them be online at once;
- Have three computers on two floors share the internet connection,
files,
	and the printer

My additional criterion is: 
- Do (some) administrative tasks remotely


What I would like to do is very much like what I have at home: a cable
modem into a cheap linux computer acting as a router with IPTables, with
a WAP providing wireless access to the three other computers, probably
all
windows running VNC servers.

Question for y'all: has anyone used AOL's cable broadband service w/
linux? Any pitfalls I should beware of? 

Also: my plan is to use the linux box for the local routing both because
it's cool and because it will allow for some remote administration. Is
that stupid, i.e., should I just buy an out-of-the-box broadband router?

Thanks.

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu


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