Connecting Two Computers

[Kurt Granroth]

On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:41 am, Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> Thanks all for the response.
>
> I am now reading the NAT and IP Masquerade HOWTO's that I just
> downloaded.
>
> The following are the computer specs:
> Computer #1
> 	AMD 1000 MHZ CPU, 256 MB RAM, PC266 MB, Builtin 10/100 Ethernet
> 	LAN, hda 40 GB WD, hdb 8 GB Maxtor, DVD, Floppy, External Modem
> 	AOpen FM56EX, SuSE LInux 2.4.10 OS.
>
> Computer #2
> 	AMD XP 1600+ CPU, 256 MB RAM, Gigabyte GA-7DXR MB, D-Link
> 	DFE-530TX+ 10/100 Ethernet card, hda 20GB WD, CD, Floppy,
> 	hdb 30GB WD, SuSE Linux 2.4.18 OS

You don't say which version of SuSE you are using.  If it's 7.x or better 
then check out the SuSEFirewall tool.  It makes masquerading trivially 
simple.
-- 
Kurt Granroth - "KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop"
KDE Developer/Evangelist | granroth@kde.org
http://www.granroth.org  | kurt@granroth.org