[Malvern] Computer books.

[ian.pascoe at bt.com]

Chris

To coin a phrase "it all depends ...."

If your setup is just to provide a local network for your own use the
setup should be adequate for the time being.  If you are looking to
allow access into your PCs off the net you may want to set up a mask, if
memory serves, that will allow access to a pre-defined point within the
network (router setup).

Ian Pascoe




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Eilbeck
Sent: 26 May 2004 00:33
To: malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Malvern] Computer books.


> 
> What are the views of the group on buying computer (esp. Linux)  books

> ?
> 
> Someone,  I think,  mentioned a good place in Cheltenham.

T'was I, Le Clerc!  Waterstones in Cheltenham had a good selection of
Linux and other computer books last time I was in there.  Had a look in
to PC World in Worcester earlier and they seemed to be getting better on
the Linux front too.

Bought one of those Netgear 802.11g cards, the WG511, and got it working
with my Belkin access point in about 15 minutes under Knoppix.  Need to
do some work on the laptop to get a more permanent solution working
though but it did work.  Using it now under W2KPro VNCed into my main
machine running Mandrake 8.1.

I'm currently using a Draytek Vigor 2600 ADSL router/firewall/NAT box
onto the net and have all my machines well patched.  I have the AP set
up using a randomly generated WEP key and restricted to only accepting
my MAC address.  Is this a reasonable setup?  I have a few spare
ethernet cards so I could setup a second segment with a firewall to the
wifi and a VPN through it to my machines and the net but I'm not sure
it's worth it just yet.

Comments?

Chris
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