DSL help plz.

[David Johnson]

Awesome!
Your help is greatly apreciated, thank you all for the info.
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David Johnson


Devin Carraway wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 10:04:52PM -0800, Sebastian Mindling wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 21:46:34 -0800, David Johnson <dgj-dave at pacbell.net> spoke gently:
> > >     Hello, this is my first post and hopefully this is the right forum
> > > to ask this indepth question.
> > > Here Is what I want to do:
> > > 1) I have a small (10baset) windows98 network (2 computers)
> > > 2) I have a linux box I would like to setup as a router/gateway between
> > > the LAN and my DSL connection.
> [...]
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html
>
>         It's reasonably good documentation.  The basic procedure, if you'd
> find a summary useful, is thus:
>
> 1. Assign the win98 machines to IPs in a private IP range, typically either
> somewhere in 10.0.0.0 or 192.168.0.0 (the latter is more strictly correct, I
> believe), and the Linux machine to the IP dictated by your DSL setup.
>
> 2. Get the Linux box talking through the DSL route; mostly this means
> setting its IP and gateway, plus DNS.
>
> 3. Tell the win98 machines to use the Linux box's IP as their gateway; leave
> their DNS pointed at your ISPs nameservers.
>
> 4. Activate the Linux box's masquerading -- you'll need a kernel compiled
> with IP masquerading for this (most stock kernels are):
>
> # 20m TCP session timeout, 10sec TCP FIN timeout, 1m UDP FIN timeout
> ipchains -M -S 7200 10 60
> # only permit masquerading from authorized hosts
> ipchains -P forward DENY
> # activate packet forwarding if it wasn't already
> echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> # Add the 192.168.* masquerade block to the forward list
> ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j MASQ
> # Fixes a few of the more picky services; see /lib/modules/*/ipv4/ip_masq*
> # for the rest; most services (e.g. web, mail, etc) work without help.
> modprobe ip_masq_ftp
> modprobe ip_masq_irc
>
>         ... also, since your Linux box is going to be exposed to the world
> as a stationary target, be sure to give it a once-over securitywise; don't
> run any services you're not using, set your hosts_access files properly,
> update your package errata, that kind of thing.  Skipping this step can
> bring you untold sufferring later on.
>
> > > 3) I would like to eventually host my own sites using the linux box/as
> > > well as share the connection to the LAN.
>
>         Assuming you mean running a webserver, the place to start with that
> is to install your webserver of choice (Apache being the usual one), peruse
> its documentation (http://www.apache.org/docs/ and similar) and experiment
> till you get the hang of things.  If you like documentation in book form,
> O'Reilly's Apache book is good for relative beginners.
>
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