thank you mark,
is there a simliar prog that you know of that might help me set up the
routing from my other machines so that i can access the internet from
them? simply setting up masquerading doesn't seem to do the trick, i
think this is to do with 'default gateways' but i confess the concept of
gateways confuses me
bascule
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Actually, as far as I've been able to assertain it doesn't matter where
> the actual "rules" are kept, however the executable script must be in
> root's path and must be executable by root. One of the easiest ways to
> learn about ipchains and how they work is to install and then study
> PMfirewall from pointman.org. Get this firewall setup and running and
> you will soon see how ipchains operates. It really takes the mystery out
> of ipchains.
>
> --
> Mark
> > > i am currently reading up about ipchains but i can find no info about
> > > where the rules/scripts are kept, all i can deduce is that one creates a
> > > script of any name and runs it at boot up - or whenever, is that right?
> > >
> > > bascule
> > >
>
