smoothwall is also very nice. the new beta (2.0.4) is rocksolid. www.smoothwall.org Shaun -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Robinson [mailto:tom.robinson@daedaluscompass.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:23 PM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Internet Connection Sharing with Linux On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 17:52, John Nall wrote: > determined. How in the world do you accomplish ICS??? For the non-windows people; what's ICS? (Internet Connection Sharing???) > I think that I have managed to get the dial-up > machine working OK, You need to specify the gateway computer in windows. That will be the linux computer that does the internet dialling for your network. I'm no expert at windows but I think you need to adjust the network settings so that the gateway is set correctly. That done, you will probably need some sort of NAT on the gateway computer to get to the outside world. That leads to all sorts of other questions like: you want a firewall, right? I could assume that you're running redhat but I'll ask anyway. What distribution of Linux are you running? Red Hat has a firewall you can setup during install. For a dedicated firewall/router you might try Bering which can be found on the LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall) website. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/index.php?menu=1 (I've not used Bering but it looks quite good. I've used dachstein which was it's predecessor). These sort of firewalls typically boot from a floppy or CD so you can generally try them out without destroying an existing setup. > but setting up the other two machines to access the > Internet through the network seems to be a black hole. Using the Network > Configuration tool (from Gnome) on them merely seems to duplicate what I > already did when setting up the Ethernet connection. Do they have to know > an IP address for a name server?? This takes place at my ISP, so I don't > have any way of knowing the IP address for it. It would be helpful to know your LAN a bit more. How many systems and what OS's are you running? Is it heterogeneous or homogeneous? When you set up an interface on linux you should also set up the gateway (as you did for windows). This creates a route on the machine to send packets to. On linux the nameserver information goes in /etc/resolv.conf. man resolv.conf will give you a few pointers there. If you don't run BIND then you will need some host resolution through /etc/hosts (man hosts). For more on linux networking try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/. Some other commands that you might like to try on the command-line or read the man pages for are: route ifconfig netstat ping traceroute t. -- Semper Fi, dude. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
