Re: internet sharing question

chris_at_nospam.com
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 06:14:33 GMT

On Wed, 26 May 2004 07:14:05 GMT, "Shefali Joshi"
<shefali_s_joshi@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've been trying to mess around with getting my internet sharing (home
>network) to work for the past 2 days without any luck now.
>
>I have two 3com ethernet cards, the first connects to the internet and the
>second I'm using for my home LAN. I can connect to the internet just fine,
>but I can't seem to be able to get my other computers(windows xp) to do so.
>For the most part, I'm completely confused as to where to begin or what
>course to follow to get my LAN working.
>I hear people talk about iptables, ip masquerading...etc...most of that
>doesnt make sense to me since i'm a newbie and am still in the learning
>phase. I REALLY don't want to get frustrated and say "to hell with linux!".
>So can someone give me some REAL pointers as to what to do to get my LAN
>going?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>

Go hit http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/ It's a gui based tool for
configuring iptables and makes it very easy to setup the equivalent of
the Windows Internet Connection Sharing. I tried it out and it's
reasonably intuitive and isolates you from the messy part of setting
up iptables.

Someone else here mentioned shorewall http://www.shorewall.net/. I
have no experience with this.

On the XP boxes, you'll need to setup the ipaddresses in the same
subnet as the linux adapter and set the proper gateway.

-Chris

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