I want to try set up some kind of Linux server that will connect my PCs and handle their internet connections.
Mainly I want to be able to have multiple pppoe adsl accounts running on the linux box, so I can route specific protocols, and or traffic to certain websites/IPs through specific accounts. Ideally the pppoe accounts need to be automatically kept running if they drop. I want to route local and international, but also have a Webafrica aco**** that routes any Free Zone traffic through the WA account specifically.
Is there also an easy way to keep track of the assigned IP on a pppoe account and alter the behaviour of traffic through it depending on the IP? (So that if using a Telkom account, if it changes to international bandwidth it won't be wasted on Usenet for example?)
Secondly I have a router already, is there a way that the traffic can be sent from the PCs through the router to the Linux box, then out the Linux box over the internet connections?
(guess that would complicate things and not really have much of an advantage) Otherwise I will have to get some more NICs for the linux box.
My router has a built in firewall, so will running a Linux type setup mean that I need to have a firewall setup on the box, or can my router's firewall just keep going? I don't want to have both.
I hope I can get the main point down without too much complicated stuff to go through, are there any recommended distro's/packages, and any recommended reading up for me to do?
Mainly I want to be able to have multiple pppoe adsl accounts running on the linux box, so I can route specific protocols, and or traffic to certain websites/IPs through specific accounts. Ideally the pppoe accounts need to be automatically kept running if they drop. I want to route local and international, but also have a Webafrica aco**** that routes any Free Zone traffic through the WA account specifically.
Is there also an easy way to keep track of the assigned IP on a pppoe account and alter the behaviour of traffic through it depending on the IP? (So that if using a Telkom account, if it changes to international bandwidth it won't be wasted on Usenet for example?)
Secondly I have a router already, is there a way that the traffic can be sent from the PCs through the router to the Linux box, then out the Linux box over the internet connections?
(guess that would complicate things and not really have much of an advantage) Otherwise I will have to get some more NICs for the linux box.My router has a built in firewall, so will running a Linux type setup mean that I need to have a firewall setup on the box, or can my router's firewall just keep going? I don't want to have both.
I hope I can get the main point down without too much complicated stuff to go through, are there any recommended distro's/packages, and any recommended reading up for me to do?
