I just set up a masquerade box at work in about 1.5 hours (from scratch) with Debian. Just make your box with two nics, configure one nic for your outside connection, configure the other for 192.168.0.1, and then install the ipmasq package. One of the questions the package asks you is if you want to start masquerading. Say yes. You might have to tweak the ipchains a little after that, but the minimum install works right out of the box. For the other boxes, give them ip's in the 192.168.0.XXX range, and tell them that 192.168.0.1 is their gateway. It was so easy, I was surprised.
BTW, this is what I like about debian--all the default configurations are just where you want them to be. --Mike Robert Kasunic wrote: > Hi, > > I have two PC's at home and would like to share my internet connection > (DSL) between them. As I don't want a third computer here running all the time > I was thinking to enable IP-Masquerading on one of them and build a > firewall on it as well. It will be running Samba too. Nevertheless I'd like to > continue using these PC's as Workstations. > > Does that seem to be a useful approach? I would really appreciate any > opions or suggestions you might have. TIA. > > Robert > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
