Re: wvdial & routing

[CogSci-Klaus <KlausN@whidbey.net>]

Adam Majer wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:06:24PM -0800, CogSci-Klaus wrote:
>
> > Two problems:
> >
> > 1) Still struggling with my internet connection when I'm not root. As user,
> > wvdial compains about pemission denied for /dev/ttyS0. After every reboot the
> > change of permission is reversed again. How can I make it permanent?
>
> Are you using devfs? Sounds like it...


?? What's that? And how can I find out? (Newbie)


> > 2) Regarding routing (ipchains forwarding) I don't really know what I'm doing
> > ... just know that it works when I issue the commands:
> > ipchains -P forward DENY
> > ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ
>
> Are you sure? Shouldn't it be
> ipchains -A forward -i ! ppp0 -j MASQ
> otherwise you'll be masq all connections comming from ppp0!


O-oh! I begin to understand ...


> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 
> > as root.
>
>
> To save and load at start time, look at 
>
> ipchains-save
> ipchains-restore


Thank you!