ASOUND AL500P PCI Router Card

junpit · 08-18-2003, 04:55 AM

Hi

I have just bought one of these. I wasn't sure it I would be able to get it to work in Linux but thought I might be able to manage it and it was cheap.

Anyway I'm waiting for a MB to come so that I can build a Linux box to also act as my router. Can anyone tell me if or how I might be able to get this to work.

-Junpit

Dr Rufflove · 08-20-2003, 12:27 PM

I think you are in luck

Apparently it works 'out of the box' with Clarkconnect 2.0 (based on RH9) which auto installs the relevant "Tulip" NIC driver.

Take a look here: http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html

The card acts as a switch, therefore the system sees a single network interface and the card handles the 4 physical ports itself, as an external router would.

junpit · 08-21-2003, 03:42 AM

Thanks.

Thats a real bonus. I saw the name ADMTek on your link which is the chip on it.

Anyway I'm not installing RH9. I was told to install SUSE as its more like unix and less memory hungry than RH. Should I be installing RH9 instead? My machine has 256MB DDR/ Athlon 2200 / 20GB HDD.

What I'm really after is punching a hole in my firewall on certain ports for services that a Windows XP PC is running. How can I do this? The way I see it, the router card will allocate an IP address of the form 192.168 etc. , even to the linux box and hence it won't route connections from outside?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

-Darren

abdulmuqet · 08-21-2003, 05:07 AM

i can't mount floppy drive if I give this command
mount/dev/hda1/mnt/floppy
it show " -bash:mount/dev/hda1/mnt/floppy : no such file or directory.

if I give ln -s /dev/hdb/dev/floppy

then show : file exist

now what to do ?

abdulmuqet · 08-21-2003, 05:18 AM

how to mount Floppy Drive ?

finegan · 08-21-2003, 05:45 AM

abdulmuqet,

A few things. First:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt floppy

/dev/hda is the first IDE hard drive. /dev/fd0 is the floppy.

Second, don't post in an already existing thread which doesn't have anything to do with your problem. Create a new thread.

Third, please don't report a post to a moderator unless the contents of the thread are in violation of the forum rules.

Cheers,

Finegan

Dr Rufflove · 08-21-2003, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Thanks.

Thats a real bonus. I saw the name ADMTek on your link which is the chip on it.

Aye, thats the one

I'm thinking about getting one myself and doing away with my external hub...

Quote:

Anyway I'm not installing RH9. I was told to install SUSE as its more like unix and less memory hungry than RH. Should I be installing RH9 instead? My machine has 256MB DDR/ Athlon 2200 / 20GB HDD.

I'm a Linux n00b myself, but I don't see why you should go for RH9 over SUSE even though your machine could easily handle it. I do know that SUSE is recommended to alot of beginners.

Quote:

What I'm really after is punching a hole in my firewall on certain ports for services that a Windows XP PC is running. How can I do this? The way I see it, the router card will allocate an IP address of the form 192.168 etc. , even to the linux box and hence it won't route connections from outside?

You need to employ something called port mapping (also known as port forwarding) which is a relatively simple task. Basically, you instruct your NAT (Network Address Translation) capable firewall to redirect inbound WAN connections arriving at a particular port to another IP address and port within your LAN.

The router card itself only acts as a full fledged router under Windows (using the software bundled). Under Linux, the card acts as a simpe switch. If you are using SUSE then I presume you'll be using the SUSE firewall; in which case, do some googling on using iptables (the firewall rules format used by SUSE) for port mapping/forwarding.

Hope this helps

- Nat