On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Sebastian Tabarce <blue_moon_ro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I'm trying to setup at home a linux router for me and my 3 friends. Basically I had some spare network cards around and that is why I have not bought a switch or a router. Also all of us are rarely at home at the same time so bandwidth will not be a problem. And I thought it would be fun to try to make this work in linux. However, I've hit a dead end. > > This is my problem: > - I have a spare computer running CentOS 5 (RHEL 5 clone) with 5 network cards > - we have an internet connection via a cable modem. The cable modem is linked at eth4 to the above computer that will be setup as router. > - all the computers in the house are linked to the same above computer to eth0...eth3. > I did the following: > - I'm using dhclient to obtain an IP for eth4 via DHCP. The internet connection works on this computer, I am able to navigate, etc. I had to spoof the MAC address of eth4 since the MAC of one of the other computers was registered at our ISP. (Yes, I could have exchanged the network cards, if it wouldn't have been a laptop....) > - I used bridge-utils to configure a bridge composed of eth0...eth3 > > my rc.local: > > #create bridge > > brctl addbr br0 > brctl stp br0 off > brctl addif br0 eth0 > .... > brctl addif br0 eth3 > ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 > ... > ifconfig eth3 0.0.0.0 > ifconfig br0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > > #spoof MAC and get DHCP IP addres on eth4 > ifconfig eth4 down > ifconfig eth4 hw ehter addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > ifconfig eth4 up > dhclient eth4 > > #iptables > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth4 -j MASQUERADE > iptables -A INPUT -i eth4 -o br0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth4 -j ACCEPT > > - the other computers also have IPs in the 192.168.0.xxx range with 192.168.0.1 set as gateway and DNS and are running Windows and linux. > > My question is how do I masquerade all 4 computers linked to br0 and make them connect to the internet using my cable modem connection on eth4? > I tried using iptables but could not obtained so far a result. IP forwarding is enabled in /etc/sysctl.conf. > I'm thinking of refining afterwards the rules to have a true firewall, but first I need a working NAT..... You need to setup NAT _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
