Archive for August, 2003
Final modifications to home network: Squid and DansGuardian
I’ve made some final alterations to the Internet gateway box on my home network: I’ve added Squid for transparent proxying and Web content caching, and DansGuardian for content filtering.
“Transparent proxying” means that clients on the LAN can’t bypass the proxy–all requests made through port 80 will be redirected to port 8080, which is the port [...]
Added DNS to Home Network Setup
I’m running DNS locally on my home network now. The advantages of this are twofold: 1) local caching of domain names speeds up Web browsing on my network, and 2) I can now refer to the computers on my network by the names I’ve given the machines rather than by IP address.
Two packages are [...]
The Linux Terminal Server Project and the Return of Thin Clients
Veterans of the mid-90s era of IT hype will recall Oracle’s enthusiasm about the prospect of “thin clients” replacing desktop systems, as well as Sun Microsystems’ hyperbolic mantra “The Network is the Computer.” Microsoft, of course, having built its very empire on a foundation of bloated, resource-intensive software (necessitating ever more powerful hardware and [...]
Home Network Setup
I recently created up a home network/cable modem sharing setup using an old Pentium 100MHz box with 64 MB of RAM as a Linux-based Internet gateway providing the following network services:
IP forwarding (routing)
IP masquerading (for permitting all machines on the LAN to share the cable modem’s connection to the internet by letting them use the [...]