Fedora 11 simple network question

[Dennis Mattingly]

Hello,

Does Fedora 11 allow for plug-n-play router?

I mean, can I do the following?
1) My Internet works
2) Go to Best Buy and purchase Linksys Router
3) Go home and insert Router

Does Fedora support this?
Should I report a bug if this doesn't work?

Thanks

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 19:51:20 -0400,
  Dennis Mattingly  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does Fedora 11 allow for plug-n-play router?
>
> I mean, can I do the following?
> My Internet works
> Go to Best Buy and purchase Linksys Router
> Go home and insert Router
>
> Does Fedora support this?

Fedora has dchp clients that will get the ip address the machine should
be using.

You still have to worry about how the router is going to interface with
your internet connection. If you have a single dynamic IP address from
your internet provider and a modem or similar device with one port on it
to plug the router into, than it will probably do NAT for you without
a lot of effort. You may need to configure from some machine with a web
browser before you can connect to the outside.
> Should I report a bug if this doesn't work?

Depends on what kind of issue it is.

Also you might want to look at the possibility of someday running your own
distro (e.g. openwrt) on the the device. Even if you aren't interested in
that now, you might want to choose a device that will be more suitable for
that in the future. The amount of memory (flash and dram) and the wireless
chips used are important characteristics to look at.

One of the reasons you might want to do this is traffic control. It really
needs to be done in the router since the various machines can't easily
regulate what they are doing based on the traffic being sent by the other
machines.

[Ed Landaveri]

Of course. It just depend how you configure the router. No matter what router its you have to configure the connection to your DSL/Cable modem and the connection to your LAN will be done automatically if you leave it to the defaults.

Fedora && Linux in general have come a long way to make sure everything is easy for the end user but you have to do your homework. If you have used Windows you have to install a software to connect to the Linksys router that sucks because it'll slow down your system and you don't need to.

Before you connect the Linksys router write down the modem name, serial and the username && password you use with your ISP. You might need them later. Connect the router to your DSL/Cable modem and your Fedora box to one of the ethernet ports.Open a browser window and type in 192.168.1.1 (the default on Linksys). Choose a password to connect to it. Type in the information needed for the WAN (ISP) connection, you probably won't need since it will receive and external IP address and generate private for your ethernet(wired) and wireless internal network.

If you're not going to use wireless clients disable it or secure it. You choose the method to do it. The easiest is to let only trusted machines to access it to the use of mac address authentication. You have to do this if you don't want free internet for your neighbors as well as open up your already hackable windows boxes if you do have them. Another thing is that if you use the wireless network  you have to research what wireless cards to get for your boxes. You can google for what cards to buy. If you happen to have Linksys cards some of them use the Ralink driver (that will be detected upon installation) or broadcom chips that you will need the firmware. Just follow the instructions that come with the router but configure it through the browser as I explained it to you.

That's the beauty of Linux everything works but you have to do  your homework.This leaves the USER in control a difference of using a proprietary OS like Windows or Macintosh where the sofware vendor is in control. You're just renting the sofware. You don't own your machine 'till you install GNU/Linux.

Since it seems you have done this welcome to the Fedora brotherhood!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> Sent: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:51:20 -0400
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Fedora 11 simple network question
>
> Hello,
>
> Does Fedora 11 allow for plug-n-play router?
>
> I mean, can I do the following?
> My Internet works
> Go to Best Buy and purchase Linksys Router
> Go home and insert Router
>
> Does Fedora support this?
> Should I report a bug if this doesn't work?
>
> Thanks

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[Tim]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 18:48 -0800, Ed Landaveri wrote:
> If you're not going to use wireless clients disable it or secure it.
> You choose the method to do it. The easiest is to let only trusted
> machines to access it to the use of mac address authentication.

And the most ineffectual...