This tutorial is relatively old. Due to cost of router reduced greatly nowadays, the following tutorial may be redundant now. The following articles may be of useful to you:
This setup is only entitled for Streamyx users that subscribe to its fixed IP. It is important to perform this setup which creates a network environment between multiple computer users. For security matters, there is a firewall protection too.
There are two important issues to consider upon:
Setting up the network
The setup diagram explain the network configuration and cabling.
Splitter
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Modem
Switch
eth0
IP Address: < your Streamyx IP >
Netmask: < your Streamyx Netmask IP >
Hostname: -
Gateway: < your Streamyx Gateway IP >
Primary DNS IP: < your Streamyx primary DNS >
Secondary DNS IP: < your Streamyx secondary DNS >
eth1
IP Address: 192.168.0.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Hostname: -
Gateway: -
Primary DNS IP: < your Streamyx primary DNS >
Secondary DNS IP: < your Streamyx secondary DNS >
Pc1
IP Address: 192.168.0.2
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Hostname: -
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Primary DNS IP: < your Streamyx primary DNS >
Secondary DNS IP: < your Streamyx secondary DNS >
Pc2 and following
IP Address: 192.168.0.3 (and xxx.xxx.x.4, 5, 6,…254)
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Hostname: -
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Primary DNS IP: < your Streamyx primary DNS >
Secondary DNS IP: < your Streamyx secondary DNS >
Server Installation
Install the Redhat Linux 7.2 operating system with kernel 2.4 and the Ipchains.
Run dmesg and write down the IRQ and IO address for eth1.
Edit /etc/lilo.conf and append the line below above line boot=/dev/sda, replace 11 and 0×390 with your eth1 setting: