Some things to look at:
1. If you do not have officially assigned IP addresses for your
systems, your local subnet should use private IP addresses.
Any class C in the 192.168.n.n range will do.
2. You should enable IP forwarding and Masquerading on the Linux box.
When I upgraded to Redhat 5.2 it turned IP forwarding off by default.
Look in /etc/sysconfig/network. Set FORWARD_IPV4=true.
Masquerading must be compiled into the Kernel, but this was already
done for me in the 5.2 distribution.
3. Use ipfwadm to allow packets to pass through the linux box.
4. You do not need a proxy for Netscape to work, but I use the squid
proxy/cache package. I get a noticable performance improvement
using it. squid is included with the Redhat 5.2 distribution. The
config file seems daunting at first, but most of it can be left at the
defaults.
-- Michael
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