On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:32:00PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have an iptables firewall running on my linux box connected to the | internet with a standard dialup ppp link. Now I have just connected | another debian box and a windows98 box to this firewall box. | Now I am a little confused as to how to proceed next. What I want to do | is allow web browsing from the windows98 box on the LAN. | | What is the best way to do this? Do I need squid installed on the | firewall box and then tell the windows98 box to use it as a proxy? Or | do I need to setup masquerading (?NAT) in my iptables firewall to allow | web browsing traffic? | | According to what I have been reading, you can go either way? Is this | true?
I have a DSL connection, so I just have masquerading. I allow a win95, win98, and winMe box in addition to my debian to access the internet (whatever) via masquerading. Since the connection is wide enough, there is no performance hit (that I can see) even though each machine may download the same page independently. Since you only have a dial-up connection I would recommend installing squid just to get the caching and the performance improvement that will bring. | I am confused? Are you? ;-) -D -- It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes at least a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.
