Re: NAT & forwarding : only partial connections
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:12:31 +0100, Francesco Bochicchio
<bockman@virgilio.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a laptop with installed Sarge and a PC with installed Sid. I would
> like to implement this schema:
>
> Laptop <-wireless-> PC+ADSL Modem< phone lines> Provider<..>Internet
>
> I had it working in the past, but after a reinstallation of SID on the
> PC, something broke.
>
> All the connections works: I can connect to internet from the PC and I can
> connect the laptop and the PC via wireless.
>
> What I do is this:
> On the PC : iptables -t NAT -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> On the laptop:
> route add default gw pc-ip # where pc-ip is the
> # IP of the PC wlan0
>
Have you read the masquerading howto? I think there's something more
involved than simple adding a postrouting rule. Anyway, there is a
package available 'ipmasq' which sets up the rules necessary for a
simple NAT scheme automatically. This is the easy way of doing it.
greets,
Wim
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