Re: Connecting 2 computers to the internet

From: Bob Gustafson (bobgus_at_rcn.com)
Date: 06/25/05

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To: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>

    I have an ancient asus box as my middle-man. It hasn't been rebooted for 64
    days, and only then because we had a power failure. Before that it was 277
    days. I was going for a year of uptime. It is running something like RH 8+.
    Meaning to upgrade to FC, but..

    As I recall, the magic incantation was to enable FORWARDING.

    # Turn on forwarding
    echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

    Note that this needs to wait until you have your firewall up and running,
    othewise..

    Hope this helps

    BobG

    On 6/25/05, Dotan Cohen wrote
    >On 6/25/05, Bob Gustafson <bobgus@rcn.com> wrote:
    >> If you are interested in cheap cheap, get another NIC for one of your
    >> computers (I have seen them for $9.95) and configure that one as a firewall
    >> - passing on packets to your other computer attached to the new NIC. You
    >> can use a crossover cable to directly connect the NICs in the two
    >> computers, thus avoiding the cost of a HUB.
    >>
    >
    >Thanks, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. The FC4 box has an
    >onboard network connection (going to the winXP box with a crossover
    >cable) and a NIC going to the modem. I got a little stuck on
    >configuring the FC4 box because I wanted it to be the middle man. But
    >it looks as if I'm going to have to do it with the winXP box because I
    >can't get the winXP box online through the Fedora box. Tomorrow I'll
    >put the spare NIC in the winXP box and try it as the middle man.
    >
    >If anybody on-list has gotten this to work successfully, then PLEASE
    >share your setup with me! IPtables scripts a must!!! I don't want the
    >winXP box as the middle man because I don't want to turn it on all the
    >time...
    >
    >Dotan
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    >Maraih Carey Lyrics 

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