Hey Alex. Thanks your reply is great and is a step in the right direction. About the double nic i need to see/verify the hardware connection of of the server. Maybe the best thing thing to do is setup the spare box while the server's still around aka emulate it. If it fails just switch back to the server. That way inde maistorbo ang ibang clients. But yours should be good enough as start. Thanks.
-- erimendz On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:02:57 +0800 Alexander Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was the first question I throw here in the list... To make a box as > an internet server... > > I think you may use the PII 450 128RAM as your server... Just boot it in > text mode if it will just function as a gateway... > > But then you need two ethernet cards, one is connected to the modem w/c > should dynamically get its ip from the modem... and the other one > connected to your hub just use a static ip (ex 192.168.0.1) > > then I run the ff. script... > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > /sbin/iptables -F > /sbin/iptables -X > /sbin/iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT > /sbin/iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT > /sbin/iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT > /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/8 -o eth0 -j > MASQUERADE > > These scripts enable your box to become a router that will > accept requests coming from 192.x.x.x and forward the requests to the > internet. If you want to automatically run these scripts every time you > boot the system, just append these scripts in /etc/rc.local (not sure > here... Kuya Mhac?) > > Configure your clients whether they're on windows or linux with > these settings: > a. An ipaddress that starts with 192 > b. The gateway ipaddress pointing to your linux router, in this > example it would be 192.168.0.1 > c. The DNS ip address, you can call your provider for this... > > Sana makatulong.... > > > -- > Alexander P. Santiago > Registered Linux User # 384399 > another Forever Linux Newbie > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
