I've been learning a lot about networking by reading a bunch about networking and found there is more than I thought.
I've got one computer which is called Tesla which uses a modem to connect to the internet. �I have the other computer which is called Boyle which is connected �to Tesla with cat5 and a hub. �I am able to SSH into each machine. �I am not able to use Mozilla to cruise the web from Boyle. �I read about IP chains and IP Masquerading and thought this would work. �So I went. to freshmeat and found a nice firewall soulution called defcon4. �I thought this would allow me to get Boyle connected to the internet. �It hasn't and I don't know why. I have the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf And I thave this in /etc/network/interfaces iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static �������� address 192.168.0.2 � �# for Tesla the same line is 192.168.0.1 �������� netmask 255.255.255.0 In /etc/host I have 127.0.0.1 tesla localhost 192.168.0.1 �tesla 192.168.0.2 �progeny �# which is actual Boyle In /etc/hosts.allow leafnode: 127.0.0.1 ALL: LOCAL In /etc/host.deny ALL: PARANOID leafnode:ALL I'm sure something is messed up in one of these file's. �If I understood how to get dhcp up an running I'd try that. I installed dhcp with apt-get install dhcp and I would have to edit a file which I didn't know where to start. I even tried dhcpcd and this didn't work either. I think I'm going back to a static address for now. At least I know they talked to each other. I don't care if it's dhcp or a static IP address all I want to do is have Boyle be able to access the internet. I done lots of reading but to no avail. I hope someone can help me out. Thanks Tim
