Actually, I'd pay money to see someone use a *canon* (maintainer of the Catholic church) to kill a mosquito. :P
On 7 August 2012 17:24, Stephen S. Musoke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All,**** > > ** ** > > Lemme throw my hat into the mix, I worked on a Windows 2k3 network and we > had the same issues and all we needed was a gateway. So all we did was get > an old PC (PIII, 1GB RAM, 10GB HDD), installed two network cards, and > installed IPCop. The beauty was that the installation file was 60MB, > installation and setup took 30 min as we had to learn to configure the box, > FYI green is your network, Red is outside, and boom we were done. No > console.**** > > ** ** > > That is all that box did, act as a gateway, hell most of the tools were > missing but it was a gateway right and had to be safe. **** > > ** ** > > Later we discovered there was a web interface, that we could use to reboot > the box every so often (set it up to do so at 3am every nyte), and we > forgot about the box. Never had to login again… Every 6 months we went back > to reinstall the OS, because power issues would corrupt the HDD. **** > > ** ** > > It was just a gateway nothing else which is what is needed. *Moral*: Use > the simplest tool there is to solve ur problem, and Confucius he say, do > not use canon (PSFsense, Zentayl, Ubuntu) to kill mosquito (gateway > services only) **** > > ** ** > > Stephen **** > > The windows guy**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Marten Vijn > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 07, 2012 5:09 PM > *To:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* Re: [LUG] Setting up a gateway**** > > ** ** > > On 08/07/2012 12:13 PM, Kakuru Peter wrote:**** > > Greetings all. **** > > ** ** > > Am stuck and need some help. Trying to set up a gateway on a small > network. I have installed Ubuntu on my box and shorewall as the firewall.* > *** > > All configuration settings seem ok as per the documentation.**** > > Given the external interface IP provided by my ISP.... When i connect IDU > unit to this interface, am able to surf off the machine. When I connect 2nd > interface to the switch, am not able to surf on this very machine. With > this setup, I can also ping the gateway from other machines on the network > but NOT able to surf.**** > > ** ** > > Any pointers on what i should look out for?**** > > > simpe as is, working under Ubuntu > > > as root:: > apt-get install iptabes > Make is shell script like:: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > IP=/sbin/iptables > $IP -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE > $IP -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j > ACCEPT > $IP -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT > > run the script > run tcpdump on eth0 en eth1 to check your traffic. maybe create more > complex rules later.... > > maybe: > - install fwbuilder as gui. > - put above lines to /etc/rc.local to enable the firewall @boottime > - enable serial acces to box if it has no keyboard/monitor (firewall games > seem to lock me out every now and then. > > I hope this helps, > > 3ct Marten > > > > > **** > > ** ** > > Regards,**** > > P.**** > > > > > **** > > _______________________________________________**** > > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug**** > > ** ** > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected]**** > > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/**** > > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug**** > > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug**** > > ** ** > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/**** > > ** ** > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way.**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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