On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 06:39:46PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:22:23PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > 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? > I have a similar setup to yours and edited /etc/network/interfaces to > add the address, netmask and broadcast address for my second ethernet > card. After doing this running (as root) '/etc/init.d/networking > restart' should initialize the interfaces. For masquerading, you need > to make sure your kernel has firewall, ip firewall and ip masquerade > support included. I compiled these into the kernel instead of using > modules, but that should work as well. If you install the ipchains > package, it should set up a reasonable set of firewall rules for you.
Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I determin the IP, netmask, and gateway for eth1, and then for the internal machine? TIA, jdk
