Re: Making the PC/STB work as a DVB gateway to the home (or office) L AN

[Gerben Welter <G.Welter@rocleiden.nl>]

At 10:02 23-5-00 +0300, Rod.Walsh@nokia.com wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Has anyone set-up the DVB card on a separate box (PC?) from the one they're
>accessing the EON service? The first box would be a kind of DVB gateway.
>I think you would need to separate the HW drivers (on to the gateway) and


Yes, I have. You setup a linux box with the DVB card and install 
ipmasquerading and squid. Ipmaqsquering is for sharing the internet 
connection and squid for the web proxy. You load the dvb drivers and the 
cyberlogin/dvbd program. In squid you set the EON proxy as the parent proxy 
(with your login when using the new proxies with authentication) and you're 
ready to go.

>the login client (on every terminal PC connected to the local network).

On the client side you use ip's assigned for private lans (e.g. 10.x.x.x, 
or 192.168.x.x) or use dhcp (you need to run a dhcpd on the linux box) and 
set the gateway adress to the ip of the linux box. That's all :-)

>Any experiences?

Works great, especially when many users are surfing the internet at the 
same. I've seen speeds up to 3 Mbit!!! But lately with EON switching to the 
new proxies, the speed is minimal. But I assume that will be fixed in the 
next few weeks (hopefully)

Grtz Gerben.