On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Brent Turan wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I have been working on this for quite a while now and I am about to get so
> frustrated. What I am trying to do may be easy for you but it is enough to
> drive me crazy.
>
> I have been trying to set my linux box to be a masquerade server. I tried to
> read the doc (howto's and other stuff) on the internet and set it accordingly
> but it seems not to work...
I assume : You have two ethernet cards
A 2.2.x kernel
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
ipchains -A forward -s 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ
> I have a Pentium 166 IBM computer. Configured for PPP and LAN. My server's
> ip number is 192.168.1.10 and the other two win98 workstations that I have
> are .1 and .2. I can ping them, they can ping me. I can make a PPP connection
> to my ISP and I can ping my dynamic IP address from the workstations. However,
> I cannot browse or ping anyone else on these two workstations.
>
> I am a newbie, so I dont know much about how to compile the kernel.
> I am assuming the version of Redhat (6.2 Standart) has already compiled with
> IP Masq modules. Thats question number one. Second is, no matter how many times
> I edit this ip_forward file (or something similar) to be 1 it defaults to 0
> everytime it boots up.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/network
> Third question is, how to set DNS? am I even supposed to
> set it? WHich name server workstations are going to be looking at? Linux or
> ISP?
ISP.
> Fourth and the last question is how can I found out if I need to compile
> my kernel (version 2.2.14-5) I go to /usr/src/ there is no linux directory there
> like they say in the docs. Am I supposed to create it?
install the kernel-headers and sources
> If anyone had the same problem or know the answers to these questions, it would
> help a bunch.....
> Bulent
> mbturantekin@ualr.edu
Igmar
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