Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> After a week of trials and tribulations and several reinstalls of LM 8.0, I
> finally figured out how LM 8.0's Internet Sharing works.
In 8.0 Mandrake's install networking setup remains quite incomplete
for all practical use. Although it has improved by leaps and bounds
every release it is not there yet. Mandrake is still learning about
networking.
After reading your message I tried to set up the simple firewall from
the Mandrake Control Center. Result: A crashed system which would
no longer boot.
A much better strategy is to download the prebuilt iptables script,
which includes masquerading (what MS calls internet sharing), from:
http://mirkk.kurd.nu/~monmotha/firewall/index.php
(rc.firewall-2.3.5), put it in /etc, make it executable and owned by
root, and call it from the end of your /etc/rc.local. You can then
run it from a terminal on /etc (./rc.firewall-2.3.5) while debugging
your changes.
This is an excellent piece of work requiring very little editing.
Highly recommended. With the LAN already set up and working, of
course you must then set up /etc/resolv.conf (with your ISP's
nameservers) and /etc/nsswitch on each non-gateway machine on your
LAN that wants internet access.
I wonder what country nu is? Anybody know?
--
Ron. [au]
Kindly note my new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and new web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/
