On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> Actually, it depends, but the likely answer in *your* case is YES. iptables
> (and ipchains) does firewalling, not routing as such. For *simple* routing,
> all you need to do is turn routing on in the kernel and provide a suitable
> routing table, neith
On a slightly different note, Ive been reading an LDP book called
Securing & Optimizing Linux - The Ultimate Solution.pdf
Its quite long and geared towards server setups, bases around the Redhat
install, but has lots of explanations and descriptions of network setups
including iptables
get it
At 11:52 AM 3/10/2003 -0600, James Miller wrote:
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But once connected, the gateway needs to be able to pass packets
designated for the computer on the LAN that requested the connection, right?
For that, I understood I'd need something like ipchains or iptables - to
route packets to where they'r
Thanks again for your response, Ray
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> diald to support on-demand connections through a Linux-based router. But I
> was also surprised to see that duald is being maintained -- the last Debian
> update to is was about a year ago, much more recent than I'd ha
Replies inline.
At 09:29 PM 3/9/2003 -0600, James Miller wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote:
Thanks for this detailed response, Ray.
>
> diald is a dialing daemon that uses pppd to maintain a persistent, or an
> on-demand, connection to a dial-up ISP. I thought its functionality had
>
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote:
Thanks for this detailed response, Ray.
>
> diald is a dialing daemon that uses pppd to maintain a persistent, or an
> on-demand, connection to a dial-up ISP. I thought its functionality had
> been superseded by pppd itself being capable of supporting persis
I didn't reply to this initially because I hoped someone who is more
current on dial-up would.
diald is a dialing daemon that uses pppd to maintain a persistent, or an
on-demand, connection to a dial-up ISP. I thought its functionality had
been superseded by pppd itself being capable of support
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, James Miller wrote:
> Newbie question:
>
> I've started experimenting with diald, since I'm planning on setting up a
> small network from which more than one computer will be needing to access
> the 'net. Diald works fine, in terms of connecting to the provider. My
> question i
