Sweet. Thanks.
der.hans wrote:
> Am 11. Aug, 2003 schwätzte Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu so:
>
>
>>Thanks in advance for any possible help... I am getting really sick of playing
>>with this.
>>
>>Ok I tried the direction found at http://www.linuxathome.net/iptables.php and
>>at this point I am having no joy.
>
>
> Check out fwbuilder. I haven't used the it, but it looks like it's pretty
> good and I've had several people recommend it.
>
> You don't need it on your firewall as fwbuilder builds a shell script that
> sets up the firewall.
>
>
>
>>The pump command command should work when iptables are used right?
>
>
> Depends on how they're configured and if you have a dhcp server available
> :).
>
>
>>I think I see some sort of error about a name on bootup, but it goes so fast I
>>can not tell. Where is that log stored in debian?
>
>
> dmesg
>
>
>>Here is my situlation
>>
>> internet
>> |
>>wirless ISP (192.168.1.1)
>> air
>>my ancient computer with pcmcia 802.11b (192.168.1.9 assighned by dhcp)
>> |
>>my other computers (?)
>>
>>At this point I would love to get this working in linux, but I would be only
>>slightly less happy to get it going as a stopgap through xp...
>>
>>I just cut and pasted the suggested iptable stuff from the above url.
>
>
> Is you're ISP providing multiple IPs for you?
>
> If not, you need NAT with all of your internal boxen sharing one IP. If so,
> I would still suggest using a NAT box.
>
> You could run a dhcp server on the firewall that only answers to internal
> requests.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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