Hi Do the following i hope this solves ur problem. On the Workstation TCP/IP properties - Gateway configuration Give the IP address of ur Linux server. Go to DNS tab Enable DNS & give the DNS IP Address of ur Local ISP. Restart the workstation Regards Bhavya Joshi > -----Original Message----- > From: Brent Turan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 4:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: > > Friends, > > I have been working on this for quite a while now and I am about to get so > frustrated. What I am trying to do may be easy for you but it is enough to > > drive me crazy. > > I have been trying to set my linux box to be a masquerade server. I tried > to > read the doc (howto's and other stuff) on the internet and set it > accordingly > but it seems not to work... > > I have a Pentium 166 IBM computer. Configured for PPP and LAN. My server's > ip number is 192.168.1.10 and the other two win98 workstations that I have > are .1 and .2. I can ping them, they can ping me. I can make a PPP > connection > to my ISP and I can ping my dynamic IP address from the workstations. > However, > I cannot browse or ping anyone else on these two workstations. > > I am a newbie, so I dont know much about how to compile the kernel. > I am assuming the version of Redhat (6.2 Standart) has already compiled > with > IP Masq modules. Thats question number one. Second is, no matter how many > times > I edit this ip_forward file (or something similar) to be 1 it defaults to > 0 > everytime it boots up. Third question is, how to set DNS? am I even > supposed to > set it? WHich name server workstations are going to be looking at? Linux > or > ISP? Fourth and the last question is how can I found out if I need to > compile > my kernel (version 2.2.14-5) I go to /usr/src/ there is no linux directory > there > like they say in the docs. Am I supposed to create it? > > If anyone had the same problem or know the answers to these questions, it > would > help a bunch..... > > Bulent > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
