This is probably a FAQ:
I have two machines with a NIC in each, cabled together with thin Ethernet
cable.
1. Machine one [alpha] is currently configured as galactic.demon.co.uk
with a static IP of 158.158.63.??? [numbers changed to protect the innocent!]
NIC is currently more or less unconfigured. Connection is via pon and dial-up
ppp connection.
2. Machine two [beta] is currently configured as beta.localnet.net with IP
of 192.168.1.2 . It could have an alternate identity as advicedisability.
demon.co.uk with a static IP of 158.???.???.??? [Can't remember this one
offhand].
What I want is:
Machine: [1] [2]
486/100 32M RAM 2.2G disk PPro 200 64M RAM 2.1G disk
beta.localnet.net [alpha.localnet.net]
192.168.1.2 192.168.1.1
<=======>
[advicedisability.demon.co.uk] galactic.demon.co.uk
158.152.1.28 (IIRC) 158.152.63.217
(Printer) (Modem for dial-up)
Where [] is the identity that isn't configured at the moment.
What I want to be able to do is to run an entirely local network [??.localnet]
until I dial up and go on line to the outside world. When I do this, I want
machine 2 to receive mail for each Demon machine: I also want the "local"
network to be hidden.
This almost certainly involves having IP Masquerading set up and possibly
firewalling. I can probably compile a kernel for each machine with the
correct options but I'm confused when it comes to all the rest.
Both machines are running hamm: machine 2 (the larger machine is running
a full installation: machine 1 is running from the installation disks
only so will need upgrading. I hope I can do this via ftp when
machine 2 is online.
Can anyone talk me through this in small steps: I'll report back/digest
this for a FAQ / installation disks.
Many thanks,
Andy
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