Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> After a week of trials and tribulations and several reinstalls of LM
8.0, I
> finally figured out how LM 8.0's Internet Sharing works.
In 8.0, Mandrake's install networking setup remains quite incomplete
for much practical use. Although it has improved by leaps and
bounds
every release it is not there yet. Mandrake is still learning about
networking.
After reading your message I tried to set up the simple firewall from
the Mandrake Control Center. Result: A crashed system which would
no longer boot.
Suggestion: A much better strategy is to download the prebuilt
iptables script, which includes masquerading (which is what MS calls
internet sharing), from:
http://mirkk.kurd.nu/~monmotha/firewall/index.php
(rc.firewall-2.3.5), put it in /etc, make it executable and owned by
root, and call it from the end of your /etc/rc.local. You can then
run it from a terminal on /etc (./rc.firewall-2.3.5) while debugging
your changes, then reboot and root-run iptables -L.
This is an excellent piece of work requiring very little editing.
Highly recommended. With the LAN (and /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch,
the default route) already set up and working, of course you must
then set up /etc/resolv.conf (with your ISP's nameservers) and
/etc/nsswitch on each non-gateway machine on your LAN that wants
internet access.
I wonder what country nu is? Anybody know?
--
Ron. [au]
Kindly note my new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and new web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/
