At 10:08 30/09/01 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi there Ewan, this is not a difficult task. >A few things need to be done in order to get it fully working. You say >you are running Redhat. I hope you installed Linuxconf because this makes >life a little easier. >Open Linuxconf and go to networking on the server. For the LAN IP >address, specify it as 192.168.0.1 (a reserved address specifically fot >this purpose). On the other machines, specify there addresses as >192.168.0.x where x can be almost anyhing from 2 to 255 but it is easier >to use consecutive numbers. Now specify there default gateway and DNS >server as 192.168.0.1 and the other setting which I cant remember. (It is >on the same screen, just specify the address as 192.168.0.1 also) >Now, life should be complete! Firstly try going to a web browser and try >139.133.204.30 (I think this should bring up my works web page if I have >the correct machine). Anyway, the ultimate test is to try the DNS server >also, just browse www.erg.abdn.ac.uk or any other page that takes your >fancy and you should be browsing. >Hope this helps >Allan
But to go down that route, he also needs to set up masquerading surely? >Ewan J. Fisher writes: >>Hi, >> I am very new to Linux and I am having problems. I am running Red Hat >> Linux on my network server. However I wish to be able to have the server >> online and allow other pc's to access the internet through the server. I >> have _no_ idea how do go about doing this and any help would be >> greatfully recieved. >>Ewan >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's just for web access, then you might like to try squid - this is an application proxy that relays and caches HTTP, HTTPS and FTP requests. Assuming DNS requests and web browsing work OK on the server it should just be a ,atter of starting the program and telling the client browsers to use the proxy. While you can set up transparent proxying using squid and ipchains / iptables, i.e. you don't need to tell the clients about the proxy - just tell them that the server is the gateway, you'd still need to set up a DNS proxy server on the Linux box, which means jumping through the hoops Allan suggests. For mail proxies - there's currently another thread running on this topic. For usenet news, you might want to look at leafnode. HTH Colin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
