> Subject: [LI] IP masquearding ....is it possible this way? > win 95) with W.X.Y.Z IP address and try to change the IP address to say > 192.168.0.X and change the gateway address to my Linux machine. After > rebooting will the datagrams of this WIn95 machine be routed thru my Linux > machine. Well it does not seem to be happening - the basic idea of doing it > am not sure. Pointers/suggestions please. I suppose it is possible. We have two nets here : One pvt (172.16.0.0) and another public class C net. We use IP Masquerading with a PC having two 100Mbps cards and it is pretty fast and works well. Once I resolve the IP addresses, I can even forbid access to certain sites as well. There is a 'real life example' given in the ipchains docs. I took it and modified it for my needs and it neetly filters unwanted packets. It'd help if you are thorough with ipchains. > Linux's future and so don't condemn about , PC-WORLD giving away a Linux > distribution that you cannot install.Try to rectify the error. I tried it. Made one debian installation and used dpkg to upgrade some of the packages. MAIN works well but COREL does not. The mistake must have been using a Win machine for creating the CD. All directories seem to be of some WIn m/c. Major files are of type data , instead of ar archive. Whereever they are of type ar archive, it works. But then you need not do it, if you have debian latest ( I used 2.0) . Finally I gave up and reverted to RHL6.1 /PCQ. It must be the lack of time/interest to test an installation before making the CD on PCW side. Let us forgive them this time and hope they 'll do better next time and will *NOT* shy away from Linux altogether. But I should admit that it *did* disappoint me. --pgm P G Mohanan , KREC Surathkal -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.
