After 3 days stress and headaches

A full reinstall, several kernal recompiles, lots of swearing, tea and beer I have finally got my linux box as a secure router sharing the internet connection with another PC in my mini network!

I know most linux people think its easy but I found it a complete pain in the arse and I'm so please that I cracked it!!

Once I have found the problem it took me about 30 minutes

This is the godsend from redhats website...



Lo and behold the little bastard ipchains were running, when I was trying to set up iptables

I just had to share that with you lol

Hey - what a great post. I like it when people visit these forums just to post a tip.. or a comment - rather than /only/ asking for help.

so well done ! and thanks for the tip

now I'm off to ask for help
Anyone seen Manuel lately?

christo

ha, what coincidence

i am back from today on. had a lot of trouble over the last weeks.

what´s up?

i am digging the threads of the last week right now, till then...

M

heh !

good to see you're back anyway
I've had some fun over the last couple of weeks setting up a couple of new machines on the network at work... and so I've found myselef asking about lots of really stupid simple little things that I've always taken for granted !!

anyway, let's get back to work

christo

how are the speeds using linux as a router vs buying a dedicated router? i read an article in a linux mag, but the following month some readers said that the article was crap and that it mislead users into thinking that there was no need for routers at all when u could configure linux to do it........

I suspect it'll depend on your harware and netowrk load.. what's the sitch?

c

I've got my laptop (with linux) connected by a crossover cable to my main PC with 2 ethernet 10/100 Mbit network cards.
The laptop connects to the internet by an adsl modem..

Have not noticed any difference in downloading, connecting to sites etc.

no need for a dedicated router there ! your main pc will serve happily as a router and if you're using linux, you have chance to learn a load about firewalling and iptables etc.. I'd stick with that!

btw, don't suppose you have a spare adsl filter kicking around ?

christo

<doh>
just noticed.. I thought that I was answering a question there - but you were only making a statement... bring me caffeine !!
</doh>

No m8 sorry, just got the one!

np ta

just vame back from linux expo 2002 at olympia - what a heap of ****e.

back to work..

xpucto

If it means anything, I set up a k6-333 with 64mb ram for use as a router just to share my cable connection (Comcast locks 1 MAC address per modem ).

My pings were noticably higher for an online game I play... Tweaked around a bit but it didnt change. My downloads were pretty close to the same speeds tho.

Nitrox, what did you mean by "Comcast locks 1 MAC address per modem"? Does that mean that I can't use my router? Well, I have been having trouble getting it to work with more than one computer at a time, so maybe that's the reason!

Cheers,
Joe of 4Life
[Proud Linux user ]

wouldnt getting a router be cheaper than buying loads network cards for the box that is going to serve as the router?

4Life,

It's Comcasts feeble attempt at keeping you to 1 connection per line. What they do is use your MAC address on your current NIC, so that only that specific NIC can recieve data from the line (ie. Internet).

So if you have a Network Card go bad on ya, or try another card, it wont read at all from the line. You have to call Comcast and get your new card provisioned (able to accept your connection). So I put my COMCAST card in the router box, and branched it off from there

Learned this the HARD way, doing probably exactly what youre doing right now, lol. They do have commercial routers that will defeat this also, but they must say "MAC Cloning enabled" on them.