On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:48:52AM -0800, brian moore wrote: > > Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact > > which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being > > able to reach the 'Net. > > Tell him he got kicked off for downloading too much pr0n.
(hehehe) I did; he replied, "What, there's porn on the 'Net? Where, where??" > > ...(eek) do I already need to learn how to roll my own kernels...? > > It's easy. Really. And, yes, you should because it's Good For You. > As long as you're on pentium or better machine it's pretty painless ...and so it was (though 'way confusing; like most other linux/unix docs I've run into, choices in menuconfig did a lot of assuming that I already knew what the heck they were talking about. :-) Anyhoo -- my brother is now surf-capable through the Miracle of Masquerading (and so we do the Dance of Joy...! :-) -- -- Jeff -- <http://www.wellnow.com> "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve."