Re: Super solstice back at ya!!

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: darrel licks <http://www.yahoo.com/~d_licks>
 > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 19:13:53 -0800 (PST)
 >
 > Hey robert!! 
 > 
 > still live in the same berkeley rent controled apt.
 > the furthest iv'e been out of town all year is santa
 > cruz-sux:( oh well, at least i'm not homeless or in
 > gulag.... still doing computer tech at poormagazine
 > .org
 > title- C.T.O. chief tecnical coordinator. which means 
 > that I take all the 'vintage' Mac comps donated and
 > strig em all together on a lan connected to DSL.
 > am using IPNetrouter as a proxy server. comming out to
 > BA?? stop by !! maybe you can help me, what I want to
 > do is take one of the many 200mhz pentium machines
 > that 
 > I find in the trash all over (remember when that stuff
 > used to cost $K's;-) and put a dedicated linux
 > firewall/proxy server on it that initializes from boot
 > in case of power blackout.

The power blackout is the hard part.  There's the APM (automated power
management?) which is supposed to be able to handle that, but I know very
little about it.

I have done the firewall/proxy server thing, so I can help you with that.

 > (the peeps at poormag are
 > barely mac literate so fuggetabout getting them to get
 > a linux box configured, for me it's kind of like being
 > the one eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.-) got
 > any ideas?? thanx in advance!!!  I'm still having
 > problems getting my windoze machines to work with the
 > mac based ipnetrouter. I think it might have something
 > to do
 > with  POE??

Is POE that WinPOET thing?  I know nothing about it.  I removed it right
after I got my DSL router.

 > or DHCP aware??

Perhaps.  I don't use DHCP since it can potentially be insecure and I
don't really need it since I have complete control over all my machines
here.

 > the literature says that
 > under the proxy all you should need is gateway,
 > IP# DNS# and subnet mask.

Gateway and subnet mask.  If you use DHCP, you'll get the IP and DNS.  If
not, you do need to assign an IP and DNS addresses.

Also, make sure your DHCP server is liberal.  My work only allows certain
MAC (ethernet frame) addresses; so, you cannot just plug in any old
computer onto the network and be assured of a connect.

 > any suggestions?? How bout
 > that wacky MS product 
 > XP with it's built in raw sockets AND unsecure UPNP?

Yeah.  That's what you get for using closed source...

 > what a joke!! win95 blows but at least its freeware
 > now!->
 > car horns relax you?? when I do CM in SF I take a 12V 
 > gellcell and a car horn from a buick and a mercedes
 > ground the to the frame and have 2 wires going to each
 > side of the handlebars to act as switches. when CM 
 > causes a gridlock, cruise around the stalled cars
 > beeping one horn then the other like they are talking
 > to one another. one of the few ways a motorist has of
 > interacting with their enviorment is to honk.......

That's cool.  Someone usually brings a can air horn, but that's it.  I
would love to have a truck/car horn.  (Those rubber horn things just
completely die in the winter around here.)

 > enjoy!!!
 > Happy daze!!! 
 > willq8?P