Re: internet sharing question

From: SUMONISH (sumonish1_at_optusnet.com.au)
Date: 05/28/04


Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:17:05 +1000

i think the easiest way is either a router or and old 486+ with 2nics and
smoothwall

(smoothwall is almost self installing and its only 20mb)

Cheers sum

"Shefali Joshi" <shefali_s_joshi@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1tXsc.73120$Gg1.3135@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...
> 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.
>
>



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