Hi Brent, I could write you a lot, but it would be worse phrased and not half as extensive as the OWTO that exists on this subject. Point your web-browser to <http://www.linuxdoc.org/> and click on the HOWTO's. Then select the index. You should end up at <http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX-3.html#ss3.1> Then find the masquerade HOWTO <http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html> and read it. It tells you all about how you have to compile the kernel with masq because it is not there by default. Only a fraction of the linux machines out there are running in masq mode. It will also tell you not to forget to enable certain functions in the kernel so that the forwarding will activate and so. And it will be a lot better than if I were to take you through all that in an email. Read it - and then you will have a lot of questions which will be easier to fit here. Happy masquerading, Karsten (and consider subscribing to the masquerade list also. There is a lot of info to get there.) ---------- >From: Brent Turan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, Jun 4, 2000, 16:58 > > 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-ppp" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
