Re: home network question
Thanks for all of the pointers. I'll start playing with it and see if I can get it to
work.
Andy
will trillich wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:31:28PM +0100, Simon Hales wrote:
>
> > To allow your LAN to use the Internet, the box with the PPP connection
> > must perform "IP Masquerading", which will pass packets from machines on
> > the LAN to the Internet, through the PPP link, and will make it appear
> > that these packets came from itself. When the host on the Internet
> > returns packets, the masquerading box will pass them back to the machine
> > on the LAN which requested them.
>
> i've never had to recompile, not with slink nor potato.
> i did use
> modconf
> to make sure that
> ip_masq_ftp
> was installed, thinking that maybe that included the hooks
> needed to do general ip masquerading.
>
> that, and
> apt-get install ipmasq
> to make life easy.
>
> > This is fairly high-level magic, and is not included in the Debian
> > installation kernel, (AFAIK), so you will need to recompile your kernel
> > from source. For complete information about IP Masquerading, and other
> > things you will need to know to set it up, install the package
> > "doc-linux-text", "doc-linux-html" or go to http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/
> > to get the Linux HOWTO's, and read at least the following:
> >
> > Networking HOWTO, IP Masquerade HOWTO, IPCHAINS HOWTO, Kernel HOWTO.
> >
> > It may take a bit of effort to set up, but once you have, it just works,
> > and you won't need to worry about it again, and won't know how you
> > managed to live without it.
> >
> > Nothing special need be done to the other machines on the LAN, except
> > that they need to have a default route to your masquerading box, which
> > is usually done by specifying the masq. box as the network's gateway
> > when setting up the network cards on these machines. The machines on
> > the LAN will also need to be given the address of a nameserver, either
> > one on your masq. box which is set up to forward queries to another
> > nameserver on the Internet, (In which case you can also read the DNS
> > Howto, and set up DNS records for you LAN), or a nameserver address
> > provided by your ISP, in which case you will need to use the /etc/hosts
> > file on each machine to record the names of other machines on the LAN.
> >
> > Hope this give you a start.
> >
> > Simon Hales
> >
> > My ICQ Number is:- 89224228
> >
> > Powered by Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (http://www.debian.org)
> >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Andy
> > >
> > >P.S. I've got a Netgear FA510c pcmcia ethernet card for my notebook that
> > >doesn't seem to be detected. Anybody have any luck with these?
> >
> > Sorry, never used PCMCIA devices at all, so can't help :-(
> >
> >
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