Re: IP Masq

[Peter Ludwig <khan@one.net.au>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp.  
> I enabled experimental drivers.  Then, when trying to enable networking
> stuff, I can't find the IP Forwarding option.  

To get the IP Forwarding option you need to enable some weird options, I
believe it's multicast something or other under 2.0.X or well, you can
just select IP Masquarding under 2.2.1...

> Also, I don't know what to do about ifconfig:  I tried this:
> eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 broadcast
> 192.168.1.255.
> What am I doing wrong here?  I think I need to change the ip number after
> 'eth0' to something else and add an entry to /etc/hosts.  Is this so?

I'm not sure why you need all those values, all I have mine setup to (and
it works) is:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

I added the gateway into the route of the machines that connect to this
box to internet :)  Works fine for me :)