Re: internet sharing

On 23 Sep 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<1159005894.603576.254120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, chellam wrote:

in our company we are sharing the internet connection
through the firewall. but we should share the internet connection
through the linux server instead of firewall.

A lot depends on the _size_ of the local network, and the amount of traffic.
I always recommend that as little as possible be running on the firewall,
although the sharing/routing/masquerading code usually is acceptable.

Using the server as a router is something for a tiny office or the home.
The only thing running on the server should be those application it is
serving.

i want the commands of internet sharing on linux platform.

Organization: http://groups.google.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.211.203.17

You are posting from a search engine. Don't you think it might be an idea
to use the search function of that service? That would also tell you that
there is more than one distribution of Linux, and each distribution has it's
own set of toy tools for the windoze users to configure things. The networking
code is part of the kernel, and you could deal directly with that.

1. 708351 Nov 14 2005 IP-Masquerade-HOWTO
17605 Jul 21 2004 Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO
45604 Apr 18 12:20 Networking-Overview-HOWTO
155096 Jan 23 2004 Security-HOWTO
278012 Jul 23 2002 Security-Quickstart-HOWTO
71626 Apr 4 2004 Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO

2. http://tldp.org/guides.html
* The Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Second Edition
version: 1.1
authors: Olaf Kirch and Terry Dawson
last update: March 2000
ISBN: 1-56592-400-2
available formats:
1. HTML (read online)
2. HTML (tarred and gzipped package, 690k)
3. PDF (1.5MB)

That would be a good place to start

Old guy
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