(I'm a machinist by trade so please excuse my mechanical thinking.)
Hello,
I've been stumped here for a week and have been reading how every one
has their other machines all accessing the web through one primary box
via the IP Masq technique. (which is my dream)
I have a Linux Red Hat 5.1 network here at home, all three boxes ping
in any direction, no packet loss. I can also login onto the web via my
primay box THEN telnet from any other box here at home to the PRIMARY
box then to the the shell account I have at the local community
college and check my email, no problem.
I also have no security needs per-se' for this is just a home machine
needed for web access.
I have all the "scripts" components from "Linux Network Toolkit, by
SERY" and when I run his ( hopefully edited correctly for my system)
_firewall.rules_ script I get the current IP assinged to me displayed
to me. I've kept track of these outputs and the address I get is
different each time which is consistent with the nature of a
dynamically assinged address.
NOW, when I logon to my ISP, all the machinery is in place, running,
and I've run the _firewall.rules_ script and my currently IP address
is displayed I run down the hall to my laptop, (which is the one
running Red Hat 5.1 that I use to "hop" my primary box to check my
shell account at the college) and go to fire up the default Red Hat
browser Netscape 4.05 and get ZILCH.
From a logical/machinery point of view, how does Netscape know where
to LOOK for it's opening to the Internet?
(question 2) Don't I have to direct Netscape (on mylaptop) via it's
*preferences* to go to my 192.168.7.1 (in house primay box) to access
the web?
I've had people tell my to try SLIRP, Apache as a proxy server etc
but I feel I'm sooooooo close here. :(
--
"If your life was nothing but sunshine, you'd just be a desert."
_________________ (Future LINUX GURU Anthem) ___________________
Bill Schoolcraft
http://home.att.net/~wiliweld
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