Some people should know that I have been a lot of
things and comparing a lot of software in order to
create an ISP/ASP site, but, What is an ISP or an ASP?
ISP stands for Internet Server Provider, in my case I
will not provide the access to the Internet but I
could setup a PPP Server such as Injoy to do it. However, I will
instead host "cheap" hosting for pages and domains,
in this case I will be doing just partial ISP
services. Why? because the great competitors like
Prodigy, esmas.com or others in Mexico have a lot more
money than I do and infrastructure that a mere mortal
can't have.
ASP stands not for Active Server Pages like in the
Microsoft subculture, but for Application Server
Provider. What is that?
Well the main idea is to
create an application that can be used for a lot of
eneterprises or people and charge a small amount of
money for the rent of the application.
Well, my approach is to be more an ASP than an ISP,
in order to reach that goal I decided to go with
eComStation as a server, so the first part was to
setup my eCS machine and the second part was to provide
them a broadband Internet conection.
Setting up the Internet connection
Well, I was afraid to have the service and have an
incompatible OS, but guess what I did installed eCoNet
and Internet Assistant (both supplied on eCS) and
followed this steps:
Take out the ADSL modem out of the box and
installed to the ethernet port and the telephone line
using ADSL filters provided with the modem (that was
the most dificult part of it)
Installed my SiS 9000 onboard Ethernet card
drivers. The drivers where supplied with the board,
but they are also on Internet. To install, just use
the old MPTS program.
I ran the Internet Assistant and create a new
conection for the ADSL protocol
I chose all the
default values and I put any telephone number,
Internet Assistant specifies that the phone will be
not used but it is necessary to enter it. You will need the DNS
(numeric) address of your ISP.
You must be carefull with the IP Forwarding options in
order to let the Internet machines to reach yours.
Disable them if you have no more machines in your
site.
After following everything in the smart-guide I rebooted and
I had my broadband system up and running.
I was able to navigate the internet via an ADSL modem
with a dynamic IP address.
In the following article we
will see how to setup the web server and the DNS resolution.
Carlos de Luna Saenz
is a 32 years old OS/2 user since he discovered it, on 1992 with OS/2 2.1. He wrote
"Building the infrastructure for the internet" for IBM
on 1996 and has developed several projects for OS/2
(especially intranets) since then.
He also knows that being an OS/2 user in todays world
is to be more productive than others, even when the
people is not always willing to try, specially for the
lack of applications with NLS, but he is convinced
that the users can change that also.
