Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

2000-10-17 Thread Doug McGarrett
I'm not sure I understand your question, but what if you use a Linksys BEFSR41 router as your firewall? Then connect the various computers to the router. Will that work? (I'm not into any computer games outside of the occasional solitaire or Windows Pinball (really well done, I think!)) But

[newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

2000-10-16 Thread Wignall, Mark T
Hoping for some help here: I previously had the following setup within my network at my residence. 1 Linux box w/ 2 NIC cards. 1 connected to the DSL modem, and 1 to a HUB where other computers throughout the house are connected. I configured NIC 1 for the IP address given to me by my DSL

Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

2000-10-16 Thread Dennis Veatch
"Wignall, Mark T" wrote: In summary, my question is this. Is this the best/only approach I can take in setting up my environment? Is there a way to accomplish this by setting up my own route tables? The reason I ask is because when everything is "idle" on my network, I see blips on the

Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

2000-10-16 Thread Greg Stewart
You need to alias the external interface to act as all 5 external "real" IP addresses a,d use ipmasqadm to port forward the incoming requests to the appropriate masqeud internal IP address. The format for setting IP aliasing is (where the "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"s correspond to the IP addresses and

Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

2000-10-16 Thread stephen
you need to re compile the kernel for this ok for ip masq you need to re config the kernel ok stephen - Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall