On Friday, 15 June 2018 12:44:14 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Right. Terry, I think you have
>
> Visitors — Pi — ISP-router — Internet
That's it exactly.
> since you said the Pi has two Ethernet interfaces. nodogsplash is
> `listening' on the Pi's left side to decide what to do with incoming
> packets from Visitors. It is the `Gateway' from the Visitors'
> perspective.
>
> Its `GatewayInterface' parameter must be set by you and is an interface
> name, e.g. one of those output by `ip a'. The `GatewayAddress'
> parameter you point out says `Default: Discovered from GatewayInterface'
> so there should be no need to explicitly set it.
>
> I think nodogsplash does all its work with iptables(8), and these can be
> listed once nodog' has done its work if you want to understand what it's
> done, and to do the same rules yourself so nodog' isn't required.
Thanks for that.
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