Thanks for the suggestions. A question... With the Internet connection and now the Wireless connection, the laptop has two addresses.
Which one should be the default gateway for the PDA? Thanks, Bret On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 10:00, Mark Roach wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 22:36, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > [...] > > I want to get access to the internet from the PDA. I've been reading > > some on the net - but the sources are mixed, of mixed antiquity, and I > > don't know enough to discern what to listen to, whose configuration file > > surgery to attempt, etc. I don't just want to thrash around, but > > there's too much out there I don't know the relevance of to want to try > > to chew through it all. Some talk about distros and boot-up sequences I > > don't have, and there are other differences I can't evaluate. > > > > Has anyone done something like this? It's called "Internet Connection > > Sharing" on Windows. Some sources call it NAT, some invoke ipmasq, or > > masquerading. > > Lots of people do this (including me :)). The one thing you will have to > do no matter what is set the laptop's address as the PDA's default > gateway. > > Here's a quick-n-dirty way to get it working: > > (as root) > modprobe ipchains > ipchains -P forward DENY > ipchains -A forward -i eth0 -j MASQ > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > and then, when you are ready to set up a real firewall, I would > recommend shorewall, it has lots of good documentation and is very > flexible but simple. > > -Mark -- Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
