Hi all,
Well back from the dead once again after another fresh install following a 
lost battle trying to get a firewall installed and working, damn that 
shorewall!

Machine is running mdk 9.0. So here is my question... How do I manually 
configure my main machine to share it's modem connection to the other 5 
machines on my LAN?

This is my /etc/sysconfig/network file:

NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=true
HOSTNAME=linux1.local.net
DOMAINNAME=local.net
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
GATEWAYDEV=ppp0

The other machines are all using the 192.168.0.xxx range and all point to 
192.168.0.1 as the gateway they should be using.

I do NOT want to use the control centre because it demands installing 
shorewall, which has been the biggest problem of all here causing no end of 
trouble with blocked ports, breaking samba and ftp. I simple hate it and the 
documentation isn't simple enough for me to understand how to write iptables 
rules yet to achieve a fully secure machine.

Hope some of you will take the time to offer some advice on this.

regards
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