Well, your first big clue as to how the interface will work out is the addresses you've been assigned. If you've been provided a range of 16 addresses, they're most likely giving you a subnet of a larger network with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.224. This will provide 16 addresses, although only 14 are useable (the high address in the range is the broadcast, the low is the network or "wire" address -- note that you can sometimes get away with using the wire address, but this is not the recommended process).
In order to do this, they're most likely going to provide you with a router and a DSU. The circuit will go into the DSU, the DSU will connect to the serial port on the router. Your network will connect to the router via whatever LAN port they provide for you. You need to setup your proxy or whatever machine you have sitting between your network and the Internet so that it's default gateway points to the LAN interface on the router, which must be addressed on the same IP network as the LAN interface (ie two of your 14 available addresses are eaten by the router and the proxy). The rest of your client machines need to have their gateway addresses set to the private network address of the proxy machine. Basically, a client request will go the the proxy, have it's address changed to a that of the proxy server, the proxy will send the request to the router, which will forward the packet to where-ever it needs to go-- this is of course gross oversimplification. HTH, Rob M K Pai wrote: > I run a corporate intranet on a Linux server. Browsing is accomplished > thru an apache proxy and dialup connection. > > We are expecting a 64Kbps leased connection ( 16 static IP addresses ) any > day. > > I have no idea about how to interface it to our Linux box. If I fail, the > boss wil give the line to WinNT - a fate worse than death. > > Please help . > > Thanx in advance. > M. K. Pai > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
