I've been running Debian Potato\Progeny for some time now, with a single nic attached to cable modem. I'm also running an ipchains firewall. I have added a second nic, which I would like to connect the wife's windows machine to, and have my debian box do ip masq'ing for the windows box.
I do already have the additional kernel module loading for the second nic, and both are recognized. Can anyone tell me how, or point me to a reference on doing all this the Debian way? I found a pretty in depth howto based on Red Hat, but apparently the systems are quite a bit different, and I could not make the translation. I'm guessing I need to make changes to the files in /etc/network, but I saw indications that these were setup by debian tools and should not be hand edited. Is there a config tool I can call to do these changes? Thanks, jdk
