how to share internet connection in fedora

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 18:32:22 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>
>>>>> Azeez, what you need is not trite retorts from resident list
>>> imbeciles (see Bill's response below), but rather to employ an
>>> iptables firewall application/script. There are numerous available
>>> to meet any need from simple to enterprise-capable. Firestarter,
>>> Shorewall, and I believe there is a basic firewall configuration
>>> utility in the distro. The web-based firewall gui in Webmin provides
>>> a very simple rudimentary funtion for this. There are many others.
>> It might be as simple as:
>>         modprobe iptable_nat
>>         iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
>>         echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>>
>> but if you have to ask the question, you might be better off with one of
>> the appliance systems that do this for you along with a lot of other
>> things - like SME server or Clarkconnect.
>>
> Strange - I don't remember writing any of the text attributed to me.
> Are you sure you got the quote correct Les?

Thunderbird did my quoting - and what I replied to (yours) did not have 
any quoting on the parts now 3 levels deep.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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