On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Amir Yalon wrote:
> Hello haifuxers, > > I'm currently migrating my windows machine to dual boot with gentoo (the > final goal is to abandon windows). The machine has two network cards: > one for local network (eth0 in linux) and one for Internet (eth1). > Currently the machine in question is set up as firewall, NAT and DNS > forwarder using commercial software (Winroute Firewall) and the other > machine on the network is surfing the WWW through the gateway machine. > > Can anyone share experience with setting up a similar thing with linux > at the gateway? > > so far: > I compiled the kernel with netfilter/iptables as modules and set up a > configuration helper and a DNS forwarder (namely FireHOL and dnsmasq). > The firewall is working, the DNS forwarder is working, but the other > machine is able to connect only to the gateway machine. > I don't mind starting all over from scratch, just want to get it working > alredy. seems to me you need to set up IP masqurade for internet conection sharing, try adding the rule: iptables -t NAT -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQURADE relevent reading material: Hafiux lecture on iptables etc. (by Eli B) IP Masqurade HOWTO man iptables Meir Maor -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
