help me to configure my RH 9 for connection sharing..!!

From: Elhanan (emaayan_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: 2 Jan 2005 08:58:47 -0800

hi all

i'm a newbie to linux (natrually) and i'm using RH becouse it's the
stanrard.

my current configuration is this, 4 pc's all windows, connected to a
switch one pc is winxp pro which also has emule and serves as the
dialer sharing for a cable modem.

i wanna transfer the connection to a compaq E500 notebook which will
serve as the router and firewall. the E500 has one internal ethernet
card, and one EDIMAX pcmcia card. both are working fine (although at
boot up linux does bring up automatically the edimax,but ifup does work
with it).

my ISP provided an PPTP connection install script which works, (on both
cards) but from then on, i'm in the dark i've tried several
configuration instuctions (like from RH BIBLE book) and scripts all
leading to the same results, on dmsg i can see the client (win xp)
trying to connec to the router as i see it's ip address (of the winxp
station) sends packets out to an outside ip, but it doesn't get
anything back.

i'm now re-installing rh 9 (from 10nth) time, a typical server
installtions (plus server tools) and if u can help me step by step to
figure out what's going on i'll be very happy.

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