Re: Simple Setup for xDSL in and a local net

[hobbes@easynet.be (Rémi Letot)]

Mariano Kamp <mkamp@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
>   hopefully I am on the right list here?
>
>   I'd like to have a machine acting as the local net gateway to the
> internet using a xDSL connection. It should also do masquerading or
> something similar which allows the 192'er clients to connect to the
> outside world using my dynamic ip.
>
>   I am *very* new to iptables and, unfortunately, also to debian. Where
> should I start looking for information?

You need netfilter in your kernel, then :

apt-get install iptables ipmasq

It works out of the box.

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Rémi