comp.os.linux.networking

sb5309@yahoo.com writes:

>Current setup
>-------------

>My company operates a LAN for about 40 PCs and above. There is a rack
>of hubs/switches, to which PCs are connected; a Linux Fedora server is
>one of them.

>Internet access is provided through the server, to which an ADSL modem
>is connected (Lucent CellPipe); in other words, internet traffic is
>routed through the server (it has 2 network cards).

>The company now wants to replace the modem with a wireless broadband
>modem (with iBurst technology); ie PCs go through LAN, through the
>server, to the wireless modem for internet access.

No it means that the PCs with wireless cards go directly to the modem and
the internet. they do not go through the server.




>Questions
>---------
>1. Using the current setup, how do go about changing the driver,
>settings to configuring the server ? (I am next to nothing about Linux
>system, except aome basic commands; I got to access the server barely
>2 days ago).

Changing what? There is nothing that needs to be changed, unless somehow
the modem does things completely differently.



>2. Can I connect the wireless modem to one of the hubs/switches
>instead (may be through a router) of the the server ?

You could if it were a wireless router. But the modem MUST be connected to
the ADSL line. It is what translates ethernet into ADSL.

So what you could do it to buy another wireless router and connect it to
the ethernet, and leave your current ADSL non-wirless modem alone. Why is
the modem being changed? Did someone decide that wireless was something
people needed without checking as to the security implications?