[WEB4LIB] Sharing ISDN

[Vladislav S. Davidzon]

Steve,

Your plan sounds right except for one real major problem... Um, if you are
going to have a mail server on a linux machine using the routers NAT... And
its not going to be connected to the internet, your faculty and students
will not be able to get e-mail from outside their network!
But yeah, you can have an internal-only mail server...

-Vladislav

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Steve Witt
> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 1999 7:26 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Sharing ISDN
>
>
> I am at an international branch campus of a US university in Japan
> and am trying to peice together a viable and inexpensive solution to
> providing email access to students and faculty.  I have two ISDN lines
> but the Japanese phone companies charge me by the minute for accessing
> the lines plus a monthly fee.  We have plans to upgrade to more
> bandwidth and an NT network.  I'd like to avoid the use of Web based
> mail, so I am wondering if it is possible to run a mail server on a
> linux machine using the router's network address translation feature
> while also connecting workstations in the library to the same router.
> Could people then Telnet to their accounts and access mail on Pine
> without actually going out onto the ISDN lines?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Witt
> Librarian
> Associate Professor
> SIUC in Niigata
> switt at siu.edu
> switt at senzoku.ac.jp