Re: Failing to use Linux PC as router
* Hans Vogelsberger <hans.vogelsberger@chello.at> [061112 14:52]:
> Some weeks ago I bought an AMD64 X2 which now I must connect to
> the internet, using my old Pentium 4 as router to the dynamic
> address I receive from my cable provider whenever I boot. Having
> used Testing since it came up in Potato times, I never needed and
> never acquired networking knowledge. Debian did all that for me,
>
> After three weeks of studying books, manuals and HOWTOS and try-
> ing to configure the two computers, I am constantly running in
> circles. I can ping from one computer to the other and from the
> old computer to the internet, and I can do everything I did be-
> fore with my old computer, but there is no connection at all
> between the new one and the internet. This I need urgently be-
> cause the AMD 64 has only a daily build netinst Etch I downloa-
> ded and burned to disk on October 17th. It is terribly castra-
> ted (even using 'more' instead of 'less'), but there is no way
> out of the networking circles without apt-get or aptitude which
> seem to be unreachable. My third computer, the one within the
> skull, seems to be rapidly loosing flexibility and efficiency
> after an uptime of more than 75 years.
Hans,
Download a ISO of SmoothWall Express 2.0 from www.smoothwall.org, burn
it to CD, and install it on your old machine. This takes less than an
hour, and can be done easily even by a novice. SmoothWall Express 2.0
is mature and trouble-free. This will leave you with a reliable
firewall/router/DHCP server for your local area network (LAN). No
manuals and no detailed configuration are required.
Then reconfigure (if necessary, reinstall) Debian on the AMD64, and
take your choice of DHCP or a static IP address within your LAN.
As you know, network configuration in Debian is trivial. But properly
configuring a firewall/router has many pitfalls.
RLH
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