I'm trying to set up IP masquerading on a slink/potato box which is supposed to route the traffic on my home LAN over an ISDN dial-up line. I have to admit that I have no experience with advanced networking of this kind.
I read the IP masquerading HOWTO. It suggests a sample "rc.firewall" script to set up masquerading and simple firewalling. It appears to me that this interferes with the /etc/init.d/* scripts used by related Debian packages, and I'd rather do it the Debian way. rc.firewall wants to run: # echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr I haven't found this in any other script in /etc/init.d/*. What's the default way to do this? Write my own script? And it wants to run: # /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny # /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 I guess this is what /etc/init.d/ipmasq is for, but I'm feeling lost as far as the configuration is concerned. The postinstall script asked for the client IPs on the LAN and I entered that, but where is this stored? Do I have to do anything in addition to that, or can I rely on the defaults? I don't need anything fancy, but the setup should be halfway secure. TIA -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
