On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:01:05PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I don't know of one on the "net" (i hate that term), but here goes: > > 1) Build a PC with two ethernet cards > 2) Install Debian. > 3) Install kernel-package and kernel-source packages > 4) Compile new kernel; make sure IP masq is enabled. > 5) Make sure second ethernet card is enabled and configured > 6) Install ipmasq package > 7) reboot > > It's that easy :)
I did the above steps, but... I'm trying to setup a home LAN for cable modem sharing. I want my Linux box to act as the server/firewall, and have my roommates connect one Linux and two Windows boxes to my computer. There seems to be many small details that need attending to, and I'm not too sure what I'm doing. (The cablemodem hasn't actually been installed yet; I'm trying to get our home network running before that.) I tried reading the home network mini howto, but it was aimed at Redhat users, and I'm running Debian. I've got two ethernet cards installed in my computer; Linux detects them and installs the drivers for them correctly. I also recompiled my kernel with ip-masquerading and firewalling options. I installed Debian's ipmasq and dhcp packages. I did some hacking on the /etc/dhcp.conf file to assign the 192.168.* addresses to dhcp clients. When I start my computer and type "ifconfig" with no options, only the loopback device is shown. So I executed the following line: ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1 up and then did a "/etc/init.d/dhcp restart" and the dhcp server appears to start okay (i.e. no error messages). I configured one of my roommates' Windows box to automatically receive an IP address. I restarted his computer, and watched the output of "tail -f /var/log/messages" on my Linux box to see if dhcpd assigned an IP address: dhcp made no entry in /var/log/messages (also no entry in /var/log/syslog for that matter). I then used my serial modem to establish a ppp connection to my school and tried "surfing the net" from my roommate's computer -- which didn't work. I'm guessing there may be an error in my /etc/dhcp.conf file, but I mostly copied the sample dhcp.conf from the home network mini howto. My other guess is that I've missed some other minor detail. Does anyone have any hints on getting my LAN running? I'd really like a step-by-step guide to setting such a thing up (aimed at the Debian distribution). Thanks for any help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar." -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule