Re: [OT] Re: Linux MTU??

From: Michael Hearne (here_at_home.us)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:43:08 GMT

P.T. Breuer wrote:
> Michael Hearne <here@home.us> wrote:
>
>>I have my network up, *and* I have modem connections for all my
>>machines. However, I still don't have Internet Connection Sharing. I'm
>>going to start a new thread after I send this, Subject = LAN/Modem
>>Internet Connection Sharing, and I need your help.
>
>
> See the IP-Masquerade HOWTO. Essentially you set the kernel to forward
> packets to all interfaces (in principle) via
>
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> and then you add a iptables rule like:
>
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
>
> (change ppp0 for whatever interface is your WAN outlet).
>
> There should be a button to click in your distros management tool to do
> that for you.
>
> Thereafter you can set that machine as the gateway for your other
> machines.
>
>
> Peter

Thank you Peter, I am printing your reply.

Michael 

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