Hello,
Is wiki user speculatrix on these lists? I'd like to discuss
changes made to AngstromManual.
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To: Linux-To-Go.org Wiki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 3:57:05 PM
Subject: [GoWiki] Update of "AngstromManual" by speculatrix
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The following page has been changed by speculatrix:
http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/AngstromManual?action=diff&rev2=142&rev1=141
The comment on the change is:
ip masq alternatives and windows ICS comments
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==== Router/Host setup ====
One of the first things you want to do after installing an Angstrom release
is to connect to Angstrom's site on the Internet and get the latest updates for
security and important bug fixes. If you will connect to internet "directly"
(for example, via GPRS) or via a dedicated router (for example, using WiFi or
Ethernet), you usually don't need to do additional configuration "on the other
end", assuming your GPRS account is enabled and router already setup to serve
other computers.
- However, many people with conventional PDA devices will connect using USB to
the desktop or laptop computer. In this scenario, your host computer will serve
as a router for your Angstrom device, and so must be configured accordingly:
you must enable IP forwarding and NAT (Network Address Translation, also known
as "masquerading") on it. Please consult your Linux distribution manual on how
to make such changes permanent, to be able to connect the device to the
Internet without manual setup in the future. Following commands will work for
any Linux system (root priveleges required), but only until reboot:
+ However, many people with conventional PDA devices will connect using USB to
the desktop or laptop computer. In this scenario, your host computer will serve
as a router for your Angstrom device, and so must be configured accordingly:
you must enable IP forwarding and NAT (Network Address Translation, also known
as "masquerading") on it. Please consult your Linux distribution manual on how
to make such changes permanent, to be able to connect the device to the
Internet without manual setup in the future. Following commands will work for
any Linux system (root priveleges required), but only until reboot.
+ NAT all outgoing traffic to the internet (eth0 would be the external
interface):
+ {{{
+ iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
+ echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
+ }}}
+
+ or, if want to NAT on the basis of the originating IP, you would use
{{{
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.129.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
}}}
>> Well, this is Angstrom manual, not a Linux networking primer. We
>> should not give "either or" stuff here, or we will just confuse
>> people. The purpose of that command snippet is to get a complete
>> novice going. Everyone else already has that stuff set up or knows
>> how to it best. But let's don't post best-for-me stuff in there. In
>> this regard, "-s 192.168.129.0/24" form is not my firewall command, it's
>> just what is easy to understand and what's usually suggested on the net,
>> and hopefully what most people do, or will, remember by heart.
- Windows users need to enable ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) to achieve the
similar fuctionality.
+
+ Windows users need to enable ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) to achieve the
similar functionality; note that you can only share the external interface with
one internal, unless you find a third party tool to set it up!
>> How do you know? Are you Microsoft Certified Professional, or what?
>> Does it apply to Vista? To which distro types of 5+ they offer,
>> exactly? Finally, how that relates to Angstrom? Again, we offer novice
>> users quick hints how to get them going, not give a primer in
>> Windows networking. So, either let's give a step-by-step walkthru
>> for specific Windows versions, where such notes will be relevant,
>> or let's cut irrelevant data about competing distro at all.
==== Angstrom device setup ====
To access Internet using domain names, you need to setup DNS server properly
(unless you use DHCP and it will be provided by the server).
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Summing up, please speak up with strong arguments for these
changes, or I, as a manual editor, going to revert them ;-(.
I know that my latest additions themselves are not ideal - there's
a need to elaborate manual structure and section intros, because it
grows increasingly "jumpy" from topic to topic. But adding additional
choices for users to parse thru and random notes won't make it more
clear.
Btw, I already feel limits of manual-in-wiki, if there's going to
form a documentation team, we probably will need to setup an SCM and
some representation vs formatting framework.
--
Best regards,
Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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