At 04:15 PM 4/12/01 +0530, vijay wrote:
>RH Linux 6.2 K 2.2
>
>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward says '0',
>I need to make Linux machine act as a router, how to do this..
>what are the steps to allow only particular clients in the LAN to use the
>Internet with NAT
>Should limit all the incoming to this machine and not to the internal
>network
This is too big a question to answer personally in an e-mail message. You
need some background, from which you can answer specific question. So ...
1. Go to linuxdoc.org cna look through the HowTos. I believe there are
HowTos on Firewalling, Ipchains, Advanced Routing, and perhaps other topics
that will help you. I don't recall s ther is a separate HowTo for NAT or if
the Firewalling HowTo covers it.
2. Look at one of the small distros specialized for routing to see how they
work (or even to use it as a router, if you have an idle 486 host around).
There are many such distributions, but the one I like (since I'm a project
participant) is at leaf.sourceforge.net . One of the LEAF sites,
lrp.c0wz.com, has an unusually large collection of links and documents
relating to Linux and routing.
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