[ILUG] Information on setting up a home network

[Kae Verens]

Éibhear wrote:

>
>The modem has only one access point. However, the "Expert Mode" web
>front-end on the modem has the following categories and options. I'm
>hoping that the NAT section is what I'm looking for, but I can't find any
>documentation on how to use it without buggering up the connection. Right
>now, I don't want to open any of the systems to the internet, so pin-holes
>and one-to-one mappings are not relevant at the moment.
>  
>

>NAT
> Pinholes           Set up pinholes through NAT
> IPMaps             Set up NAT one-to-one IP address mappings
> Default Server     Set up NAT default server options
>  
>

if you set up the Default Server to be one of your Linux machines, you 
can then use ipchains (or whatever it's called these days) to set up 
your local rules with finer control than if you rely on the Cayman's 
inbuilt engine.

kae