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Routing for small networks

Smeyers Ramses, fatman@sin.khk.be

v0.2, 12 Jan 1999

Many small company's are connecting their little LAN's to the Internet. They are buying expensive software because they don't now how to configure a Linux router and are afraid because Linux is not a GUI OS in which they can configure everything by just clicking. This document describes how to set up routing for small networks who are being connected to the Internet.

1. Changes since v0.1

2. Introduction

3. Routing

3.1 Required hardware
3.2 What is routing?
3.3 Why does the Internet uses routing

4. Setting up routing

4.1 What do I need to start?
4.2 Setting the up IP-address for gateway
4.3 Setting up IP-fowarding
4.4 Securing server and allowing hosts
4.5 Some special protocols

5. The Linux Router Project

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Required Hardware
5.3 Getting the disk installed
5.4 Configuring the LRP disk
5.5 Special Hardware

6. Getting more current information

7. Acknowledgements

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