Re: pointer for home networking
Debian has the Linux HowTo's:
> ~$ apt-cache show doc-linux-text
> Package: doc-linux-text
> Priority: standard
> Section: doc
> Installed-Size: 9136
> Maintainer: Debian LDP Maintainers <pkg-doc-linux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Architecture: all
> Source: doc-linux
> Version: 2005.04-1
> Replaces: doc-linux, doc-linux-html (<< 98.06-1), doc-linux-nonfree-text (<< 2004.09-1)
> Suggests: doc-linux-html
> Conflicts: doc, doc-linux
> Filename: pool/main/d/doc-linux/doc-linux-text_2005.04-1_all.deb
> Size: 8264872
> MD5sum: 59618517881805e0eeaa46c299172065
> Description: Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in ASCII format
> The doc-linux-text package provides the current Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in
> ASCII format. Alternatively, HTML versions are provided in the
> doc-linux-html package.
> .
> The version number reflects the month in which doc-linux-text was created.
> .
> All files are available at http://www.tldp.org/ (with versions in ASCII,
> DVI, HTML, postscript, and SGML).
> .
> Documents with licences that fail to meet the Debian Free Software
> Guidelines can be found in the doc-linux-nonfree-text package.
~$ locate -i masq |grep -i how
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Cipe+Masq.gz
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.gz
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/IPMasquerading+Napster.gz
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO.gz
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO.gz
> $ zless /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.gz
[...]
> Chapter 1. Introduction
>
> 1.1. Introduction to IP Masquerading or IP MASQ
>
> This document describes how to enable the Linux IP Masquerade feature on a
> given Linux host. IP Masquerade, called "IPMASQ" or "MASQ" for short, is a
> form of Network Address Translation (NAT) which allows internally connected
> computers that do not have one or more registered Internet IP addresses to
> communicate to the Internet via the Linux server's Internet IP address. Since
> IPMASQ is a generic technology, you can connect the Linux server's internal
> and external to other computers through LAN technologies like Ethernet,
> TokenRing, and FDDI, as well as dialup connections line PPP or SLIP links.
> This document primarily uses Ethernet and PPP connections in examples because
> it is most commonly used with DSL / Cablemodems and dialup connections.
But I'm with the others on this.... having recently purchased a Linksys
wireless router. And with that, there's no annoying fan noise from your
old beige box.
Have fun.
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