Bill,
Thanks for the info, I made need some more help. You are right, there is
too much info. I have read pages and pages, done this and that. Looks
like I need to start over. From what I read I needed to download
ifdhcp_done and rc.firewall and compile the kernel to make masquerading
work. Let me give you the run down on what I am trying to do here.
I am running redhat 5.2 on this machine, that I connect via ppp to my
main server ( i am a isp). I have a static ip for this machine and a
domain name for my ip here at my business. The server connects fine and
everything works from it, email, telnet http etc, what I want to do is let
the work stations that are attached to it to browse the web, and use
telnet. The email works because I am using this domain for the server.
What is the easiest way to get this running..
Thanks for the info.
Gill Blue
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Bill Strosberg wrote:
> Gill:
>
> Masquerading works right out of the box - no kernel compile necessary,
> unless you are downloading the new ipchains or development versions. I
> think the new versions are all ipchains based, therefore if you are using
> ipfwadm you should be current with the version on the RedHat 5.2 CD ROM.
> I'm a risk taker - I trust the binaries on the RedHat CD ROM.
>
> I'm running a masqueraded firewall right now on 5.2 with no problems.
>
> Suggest "The Linux Network Toolkit" by Paul Sery if you are new to this. I
> am and it helped me get going within a week. It also explains Samba quite
> well. This book was written specifically for the RedHat distribution, and
> comes with a 5.0 release on CDROM, as well as utilities and a ipfwadm rule
> set. Paul Sery also has a web site at www.swcp.com/~pgsery/LNTK. The site
> a simpler rule set on it than the book.
> One the most common problems I've encountered with Linux is the
> documentation on the Internet is not distribution-specific, and it makes
> things more complicated than they really are. If you follow all the
> "generic" man pages, Howto docs and FAQ's on the Internet you are bound to
> get caught up in putting in the effort of ten men on a one man job.
>
> Every time I start out to implement a new area of Linux I go through the
> same thing - read everything, try and fail, escalate my efforts, screw
> things up worse by making things too complicated. Then I find out I could
> have done things simpler and faster with half the work.
>
> Now that I understand ipfwadm from Sery's book, I am working through David
> A. Ranch's TrinityOS. David's stuff is far more (far, far, far more)
> comprehensive than LNTK, but there's just too much in there for beginning.
> I would have blown my input buffers if I had started with TrinityOS!
>
> Bill Strosberg
>
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> Subject: [masq] masquerade and redhat
>
> Does anyone have masquerading working with Redhat 5.2. I have followed the
> instructions from how to's, compiled the kernel but still no luck. Any
> help would be appreciated..
>
> Gill Blue
>
>
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