At this point, I would consider setting up dnsmasq on the modem machine,
and letting it provide dhcp service for the network. It has the
advantage of providing DNS for the local network, as well as forwarding
requsets from the second machine to your ISP's name servers as set by
your modem connection. It gets the names for the local network from
/etc/hosts on the machine it is running on, as well as from the dhcp
leases it gives out. It also acts as a chaching name server for the
local network. It was written for setups like yours.
Once you have this all working, you will need to configure your firewall
to allow trafic over the local ethernet, and restrict it over the modem
connection. You also need to set up Internet connection sharing. MCC has
a section to do this, or it can be set up manualy, but that is for
another message...
Mikkel
Mikkel
I've got the ssh going between the two machines. Was in IRC and it was
suggested I don't need dnsmasq or dhcp but could simply make first box a
gateway and add ipkungfu to it. I was doing some reading on dnsmasq and
dhcp, and while still befuddled, happy to try with that - what is your
opinion on the pros and cons? I suppose I could do the gateway thing
first, and then the other later? learn both and see what happens?
Thanks
Rosemary
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