On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:03:27 +0100 Oliver Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. after booting the fresh installed gentoo box (which shall > act as router/gateway), exactly which packages do i need > to emerge ? The ones you want to use (don't really get the point of your question...) > 2. As far as i understood, i need *not* to add eth1 to the default > runlevel using 'rc-update eth1 default' because pppoe will > do everything for me ? You have to "rc-update add net.eth1 default". > 4. My current provider sucks (German t-online), it drops the connection > each 24 hours, so i need an automatic re-connection cron script > which checks if the connection is still up, and re-connects > if my provider pulled the plug again. No, you don't. Setup for dial-on-demand and enter a hangup-timeout of 31536000 seconds (approx. 1 year, so it'll never hangup and redial after loss of the connection) > 5. After each new connection, i need to execute a script for > updating my dyndns aliases (i've got a dynamic ip), and > probably I also need to restart ntpd. So: howto exec a > post-connect script ? # man pppd Take a look at /etc/ppp/ip-up & -down. Then forget about that again and just # emerge ddclient and set that up for daemon-mode - no need for ppp-scripts ;) > 6. Which packages do i need to emerge for setting up my router > as a router ? Then, how to configure simple routing ? 'iptables' might come in handy to enter some basic packet-filtering rules... > 7. Firewalling is a different topic; I think one can use one of > the guides at tldp.org, which also covers advanced routing > techniques, like traffic limiting/shaping for smoother browsing > (while some host is downloading at full speed), etc. > So the pppoe guide would not have to cover these topics, > but it should at least cover questions 1-6 in detail. # emerge shorewall Install and configure it. It even handles MASQ for you... > However, such a guide would be a great addition to the gentoo > documentation list. I suppose you're now going to make one, as you know what to do ? :) -- Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt
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