A silly little thing

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Author: Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr.
Date:  
Subject: A silly little thing
Do you have SQUID or some other proxy application running on your Caldera
box? Without a proxy server listening on eth1 the other machines will not
be able to use proxy settings pointing to the Caldera box to get out onto
the net.

Gilbert

At 01:03 PM 1/28/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>New to the linux world. Set up a machine off my cable connection using
>Caldera(Cal). I have my static IP set up on eth0 and my eth1 set to 10.1.1.1
>I can use my browser on Cal, to get out on the net. I want to eventually
>set this box up to be my firewall, because I have 4 machines sitting
>behind it. For the time being I am just trying to hook up 2 of them. A
>Mac dual G4 and a WIN 98 machine. I have set the WIN 98 up with the
>address of 10.1.1.2 and the Mac up with 10.1.1.4
>I went into the Internet Explorer and set it to use a proxy server. But I
>haven't been able to get either of these machines to see out. I set the
>Proxy server address to 10.1.1.1 so I'm not sure if thats the prob or
>not. I can ping both ways from the WIN 98 to Cal and Cal to WIN 98. I
>can also ping the Mac from the Cal to the Mac, but the Mac does not
>currently have Mac Ping on it yet.
>Where is a good admin source I could use to properly set up my
>intranet. I have checked the Caldera site for several hours to no
>avail. Maybe I just keep missing it. I've also tried a number of things
>in the OpenLinux Doc that came with the OS I bought from them.
>