On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 09:13, Anton wrote:
> Sorry but there is a stony silence on newbie... there seems to be a lot
> of political traffic though... if this is not the place to be asking the
> sorts of questions I'm asking could someone please direct me to the
> right place?
> Thanks
> Anton
that sort of thing (lengthy OT flamewars on tech help lists) really bugs
me.
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to set up my mandrake 9.1 box to be the gateway to my
> recently created network with a single windoze ME machine on the private
> subnet. I have finally managed to get the ME machine able to reach the
> outside world but to be honest I can't really work out how! I tried
> pretty much everything and nothing worked... and then it just started
> working. My general process was to just keep running drakgw until the
> damn thing worked - finally it did. (i tried knetfilter, and everything
> else I could get my hands on, but I'm still a newbie...). The problem is
> this. EVERY time I want the ME machine to work I have to rerun drakgw.
> Not only that, however, but I have to go in and manually reset the
> default to the dialup address, as running drakgw always seems to put the
dialup as in a modem? I'm going to assume so below:
> default back to my home net interface (ethernet). What is going on here?
The GUI tools for doing this stuff are trying hard, but they're still
lacking. As root, go to /etc/shorewall and start editing files.
interfaces:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
net ppp0 detect
masq eth0 detect
masq:
#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS
eth0 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
policy:
#SOURCE DEST POLICY LOG LEVEL
LIMIT:BURST
masq net ACCEPT
fw masq ACCEPT
fw net ACCEPT
net all DROP info
all all REJECT info
zones:
#ZONE DISPLAY COMMENTS
net Net Internet zone
masq Masquerade Masquerade Local
rules:
any exceptions to the policy. Leave it alone for now unless you want to
serve stuff to the Internet.
/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=machine.whatever.tld
DOMAINNAME=whatever.tld
GATEWAY=isp.gw.ip.address
GATEWAYDEV=ppp0
FORWARD_IPV4=true
service network restart
service shorewall restart
> Also simply booting up the ME machine resets the default route to the
> address of the local subnet interface! (even though it be on the dialup
> after connecting to the net)
that's right. ME should send Internet-bound traffic to the Mandrake
box's inside interface; Linux will then route it onward.
> Another issue is that the dhcp doesn't seem to be working. I originally
> set up a network with XP (which I also have on the mdk9.1 box) and used
> a disk created by the xp wizard to get it going. Somehow ME always
> manages to set the IP address to 192.168.0.163, and the gateway to
> 192.168.0.1 - what it originally had for the xp network. Mdk9.1 seems to
> want to have a subnet starting with 192.168.1.1 but ME isn't listening
> to the dhcp (which I guess should be running, as it seems as if that is
> what it says it is doing) and just sets itself to 192.168.0.163. If I
/etc/sysconfig/dhcpd
INTERFACES="eth0"
/etc/dhcpd.conf
ddns-update-style none;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
# default gateway
option routers 192.168.1.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name "whatever.tld";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.253;
default-lease-time 21600;
max-lease-time 43200;
# I want my laptop to appear at a fixed address
host othermachine {
next-server othermachine.whatever.tld;
hardware ethernet the:mac:address:in:hex;
fixed-address 192.168.1.x;
}
}
chkconfig dhcpd on
service dhcpd start
> set the mdk9.1 to statically come out with 192.168.0.1 then, as long as
> I rerun the config tool, keeping the IP addresses the same for dns and
> others then after I reset the default I can access the net with both
> machines. This is an enormous amount of hassle and I'm sure there is
> something silly I'm not doing. Any suggestions?
> Cheers
> Anton
>
>
>
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