[deathl]

Hi ,

I am a linux newbie struggling along, I am running redhat 9.0 on a home network. The dhcp is running fine dishing out the ip addresses and linux can see the net (cable) but my windows clients cant. the server is running 2 eth cards 1 for internet and 1 for the local.

please someone help me as i cant find the solution.

Ta
Luke

[Squashman]

Kind of need to know what the rest of your network hardware is. Are all your computers hooked up to a router. Or is your linux box hooked up directly to the cable modem and your Windows clients need to go thru the linux box to gain access to the internet.

[deathl]

cool,

redhat runs straight into the cable modem and yes the win clients go through a 10/100 switch to the linux.Also i have samba running correctly and all clients can access it. it is just seeing the internet on my windows clients that isnt running.

ta
luke

[Squashman]

You need to setup IP Masquerading on the Linux machine. but I personally would buy a router and hook them all up to that.

[deathl]

Thankyou

[soup4you2]

routers are no fun... their the lazy mans way of kernel hacking... *heh*

basically if you dont get a real router your going to have to setup ipmasquerading..

i dont know about redhat but in the BSD distros.. (OpenBSD or FreeBSD, Etc...) you just need to make some firewall rules to pass the traffic and then make some nat rules to forward packets...

[JayTheHun]

Actually, grab an old PC and load Smoothwall ( smootwall.org ) to make your own firewall/router.

[soup4you2]

Ahh how about this one:

OpenBSD on a floppy w/ PF

I finally have release of my (in)famous Firewall On A Floppy (thanks to Mike for the name). This allows you to create a firewall that is based on a floppy (hence the name), and you can build it from a seperate source tree. Edit the files in [foaf/config] to configure for your system. Make sure you at least edit [foaf/config/etc/pf.conf] because it has bogus entries for IP addresses, and blocks everything. Right now it is mainly for invisible bridging firewalls, but I plan to expand it to be a routing firewall. Uses a serial console (to com0/tty00), if you want to disable that, empty out [foaf/config/etc/boot.conf].

http://www.theapt.org/openbsd/foaf.html

[soup4you2]

oops nevermind their not done with routing on it yet...

[phessler]

full featured routing isn't supported. basic routing (like what a home user/small office will use) is. It requires an OpenBSD host machine to build the image. Email me if you need more info.

spambox at theapt org