The other people you spoke with are correct. You should be able to connect just about any IP enabled device to Comcast. I have done both a FreeBSD firewall and am now running a Netgear soon to be moving to a CheckPoint firewall. In short, they will all work including your Redhat configuration.
These might help you get on the right track to configuring your Red Hat box to allow the other machines out. http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.php3 I would also suggest looking over the below URL to also make your router into a firewall: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/ch-iptables.html Happy configing! Regards, Scott M. Algatt Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, nokio x0 wrote: > Hi, i'm not sure if this is the right mailing list to post to or not. But > i'm sure I will soon find out... > > Anyway. I'm fairly new with Linux networking and i'm a little stumped. I > have three boxes, none have OS's yet, but i'm planning on one having Windows > XP Pro, and the other two with Redhat 8.0. My plan is to have one of the > Redhat boxes set up kind of as a router(?) so my two computers other > computers could share the same internet. Is this possible? and if so how > would I go about doing this? Also how would I go about securing the redhat > box for this kind of configuration? I have a cable modem with Comcast @home > internet. I'm not sure how to configure this under the Linux environment. I > have contacted Comcast but their support told me that I cannot use their > internet service with Linux but I have heard from many other network gurus > that they are full of it and it is totally possible. Any help would be much > appreciated. Thanks in advance... > > Thanks, > nokio > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
