On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 02:06:46PM -0500, Asher Haig wrote: > Shaleh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/12/98 11:33 PM > > >Hi, I just bought a "network in a box" kit: hub, two 10/100 ethernet > >cards, cable. Could someone please point me to FAQs, HOWTOs etc. for > >getting machines connected and using one box w/ ppp so all have net > >access. Also it is a sohoware kit, has anyone had good/bad/indifferent > >luck w/ their hardware. I can still take it back. > > > >Thanks, I am still getting accustomed to Linux networking. Never set oe > >up from scratch by myself. (Which is why I am doing it). > > Install all the cards and such, compile the modules, get ethernet working > on all the machines. Then set up ppp on one machine. Compile IPMASQ and > IPForwarding support in modules or in the kernel. Set up forwarding rules > for each internal ip, such as: > > ipfwadm -F -a m -S 10.0.0.2/32 -D 0.0.0.0/0 > ipfwadm -F -a m -S 10.0.0.3/32 -D 0.0.0.0/0 > ipfwadm -F -p deny
why not just 1 ipfwadm -F -a m -S 10.0.0.0/32 -D 0.0.0.0/0 instead of 1 per IP? that way all of 10* gets the ip masq forwarding? (thats what I use) > I put them in a file, such as /usr/bin/startipmasq. (This is on the ppp > machine). or... in /etc/init.d/local.ipmasq (I use local. to prevent conflicts) then it will set it up on reboot every time... I have found this isn't a problem when the ppp link is downb either. > Set up networking on the other machines (/etc/init.d/network) so that it > uses the ppp machine as a gateway. 10.0.0.* and 192.168.1.* both work as > internal-only IP ranges. yup...and if you wanted a class B instead of a class A or C (I use the class A 10.* myself) hmm I can't find the numbers... could have sworn it was in RFC 791...which references assigned numbers... rfc790....hmm...I don't have that one...oh well BTW just as a note... I noticed that the other end of my PPP link is often 10.* ;) makes sense tho...afterall...my ISP doesn't really need its ppp servers to have REAL and acessable IPs ;) > "It was like a visit by Don Carleone. I expected to > find a bloody computer monitor in my bed the next day." > -- Mark Andreessen regarding the visit from Microsoft. love the quote :) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"