Jose, I did have PPP working, I'm dumping PPP and going for a dedicated DSL
connection using a Cisco 675 router... The new configuration doesn't use
PPP...
Barry
Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Barry Treahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 1999 3:03 PM
> Subject: [Masq] Linux 2.0.35 w/IP Masq and a single NIC
>
> >
> > I've had IP Masq running for many moons with my LAN connecting to my ISP
> >
> > over a dialup v.90.
> >
> > My DSL was just installed, with a single static IP from my ISP, and I'm
> > attempting a short-cut that has turned into everything but that, but I
> > only have one NIC in the Linux system. I've attempted to setup the NIC
> > with aliases (my internal IP's and the static ISP IP) and to use IP Masq
> >
>
> HUH? Why?
>
> All you need to have is a ppp link to the ISP. Masq will use it.
>
> I have a cable modem set up this way and it works fine, in spite of the
> extra packets this generates...
>
> At the client side (windblows or Linux) you just point them to the ethernet
> interface on the linux machine, as a gateway...
>
> IP masq will take packets coming in from the other machines and send them
> out via PPP to the internet... (with masq'ing of course...)...
>
> Inbound packets SEEM to be coming in via the PPP link (actually via the
> ethernet card) and are "demasq'd" and sent to the local machines, again via
> the same card...
>
> All of this without doing anything other than setting up IP Masq and the
> rules...
>
> -JMS
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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