Take a look at Coyote and at E-smith. Both are pretty much turn-key gateway IP-Masw systems.
Regards, Jim Timothy Bolz wrote: > 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 > > > >
