Re: home network question
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
>
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>
> >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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