On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:59, magnet wrote: > 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 > magnet > I too gave up on shorewall. Grab gShield. Every feature you could wish for. Configured with a single simple conf file. You be up an sharing in about 2 minutes - 5 if you read the fine print.
HTH Brian
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