I'm trying to set up a laptop as a NAT router for a small home network, sharing our crappy 33.6kbps dialup connection among several machines. (I hate having to disconnect so someone else can use the phone line.)
I am aware that it'd probably be simpler to just go and buy a Linksys home network router, but I've already stuck $100 into this so I might as well keep trying. I'm using an old Toshiba 200CDS laptop with 48 megs of RAM and a 4 gig HD. (I'm using a laptop specifcally so this router will run silently with no buzzing fans.) So far I've got the 100mbit PC-Card working and seeing the other machines on the network, and ppp can dial out in demand mode, but the next steps seem very vague. I don't know what I'm supposed to do to make NAT function. There's something in dselect called "ipmasq", but it does not work. It seems to install fine, but when it runs I get an error that says "IP masquerade not enabled in the kernel" which is odd because I thought that was supposed to be automatically available in newer kernels. I've been doing a variety of web searches, trying to figure out how to turn on NAT support, but I am not finding anything specific to Debian 3.0 that explains the process. For example, a Google search on "IP masquerade not enabled in the kernel" turns up absolutely nothing. What am I supposed to be doing next to make it work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
