> I'm looking to share my dialup Internet connection on a soon to be > Redhat 7.3 machine, with two clients behind it on a private IP range.
Excellent, I've been doing this for a few years on and off, depending of when I have a permenant or dynamic circuit to the net.> > It has been about 3 years since I last did this, and I remember at the > time there was fiddling that was required to get things like IRC and > ICQ to work, specifically file transfers. Yeah I know what you mean, I remember compiling the add on module for 2.2.x kernels with ipchains. These days I use iptables and I have no problems with using ICQ and IRC behind the nat box. My ICQ sends and receives files no problems. etc. As for IRC that works fine also.> > Iptables is standard with RH 7.3, and in the latest kernels, so this > seemed the logical way to go. In my brief research I noticed on > iptables.org that they say there is no ICQ module available. As stated icq works fine, and I have no need to use a module like we did back in the 2.2.x kernel days with ipchains. iptables i must say is pretty good like this.> > Basically I'd like the following to work for both machines behind my RH > box: > > - IRC (including DCC's) Works for me.. > - ICQ (including file send/receive) Works for me also. > - Netmeeting (nice, but not essential) Never tried. > - Music stealing programs? :) Not tried. > > Does anyone have any experiences with getting these to work under > iptables? Should I install and use SOCKS? You could install a socks server for anything that doesn't work, but ICQ and IRC gives me no problems, as for your other apps, I don't use so I can't comment. Hope my feedback helps with your decision :P> > Any feedback on the best way to attack this would be great! > > Thanks > Sarah > > > ---------------- > Powered by telstra.com > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
