Ron Stodden wrote:
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
>> Dear friends:
>>
>> After a week of trials and tribulations and several reinstalls of LM
>
> 8.0, I
>
>> finally figured out how LM 8.0's Internet Sharing works.
>
>
> In 8.0, Mandrake's install networking setup remains quite incomplete
> for much practical use. Although it has improved by leaps and
> bounds
> every release it is not there yet. Mandrake is still learning about
> networking.
>
> After reading your message I tried to set up the simple firewall from
> the Mandrake Control Center. Result: A crashed system which would
> no longer boot.
>
> Suggestion: A much better strategy is to download the prebuilt
> iptables script, which includes masquerading (which is what MS calls
> internet sharing), from:
>
> http://mirkk.kurd.nu/~monmotha/firewall/index.php
>
> (rc.firewall-2.3.5), put it in /etc, make it executable and owned by
> root, and call it from the end of your /etc/rc.local. You can then
> run it from a terminal on /etc (./rc.firewall-2.3.5) while debugging
> your changes, then reboot and root-run iptables -L.
>
> This is an excellent piece of work requiring very little editing.
> Highly recommended. With the LAN (and /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch,
> the default route) already set up and working, of course you must
> then set up /etc/resolv.conf (with your ISP's nameservers) and
> /etc/nsswitch on each non-gateway machine on your LAN that wants
> internet access.
>
> I wonder what country nu is? Anybody know?
>
Top-level domain
.nu = Niue
See:
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/
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