Re: guard dog +adsl

I haven't seen guidedog in the Mandriva repositories.  I don't do 
networking so I can't advise you about that but guess you could get the 
rpm at the site.
Rolf

Linux Advocate wrote:
> rolf, one more thing.... i could find guarddog in the contrib for 
> mandriva 2006 but no guidedog? how can we then handle nat + portforwarding
>
> regards,
> marco
>
> */Rolf Pedersen <[email protected]>/* wrote:
>
>     Linux Advocate wrote:
>     > Can guarddog work with adsl modems? will it dial up and b
>     "always on"
>     > when the machine boots up?
>     >
>     > must i also install rp-pppoe?
>     >
>     > i am using mandriva 2006.
>     >
>     > bye,
>     > marco
>     >
>     Short answer: yes. I've done it with adsl and cable on Mandriva.
>     There
>     are two aspects to your project. If you are asking about rp-pppoe
>     because you don't have an adsl connection yet or, even if you do, and
>     your isp uses pppoe, I recommend it. It should be in your main urpmi
>     source; become root and:
>     urpmi rp-pppoe
>     as root, configure your connection:
>     adsl-setup
>     start, stop, as root:
>     adsl-start
>     adsl-stop
>     or set up a user with visudo to use sudo to control the connection as
>     normal user.
>
>     You could put
>     adsl-start
>     at the end of /etc/rc.local if you want to dial-up during every
>     boot but
>     I prefer to start after boot because, if the isp is down, boot will
>     stall for a long time waiting for a timeout. There are other
>     strategies.
>
>     Mandriva puts guarddog in contrib, so make sure you have a contrib
>     source or download the latest rpm from Simon's site and:
>     urpmi guarddog
>     or
>     urpmi /path/to/guarddog.rpm
>     Urpmi will prompt to install iptables.
>
>     As root, start guarddog from cli with
>     guarddog
>     click on Help to read the very clear manual. I think it's about the
>     easiest gui around. Once you have configured guarddog, it's loaded
>     automatically at boot. Be sure to enable the dns, http, mail, ftp
>     etc.
>     protocols that you use.
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