Re: small network setup tools

[Thomas Halahan <tom@halahan.com>]

Thanks for the advise guys.  Need a little more 
clarification.  Have got my PC networked now, and all point 
to the gateway PC which has the modem attatched.  However 
when I dial up the gateway PC doesn't allow the other PC's 
to route through it to the internet.  The route table 
suggests that this should be possible when the ppp0 ip 
addresses are assigned.  Reading aroung it seems that I 
need the 'ipmasq' package.  Can you confirm this.  

Also I need some kernal modules (of kernel compile flags) 
available. Will I have to recompile my kernel. I hope not.

Tom 


On Tuesday 22 January 2002 08:41, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> On Tuesday 22 January 2002 3:40 am, Stephen Gran wrote:
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> [snip lots of useful advice]
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> I think you left a most important thing out.
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> do a
>
> man interfaces
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> This describes what to put in the file
> /etc/network/interfaces - which basically how to tell a
> debian system which interfaces to bring up during boot
> and how to treat them.  Specifically, on the non gateway
> machines you can specify the ip address of the gateway
> which then tells it how to route packets for the internet
> from your client machines out through the gateway an on
> to the internet.  No need for route add etc
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> - --
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>   Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
> http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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