how to share internet connection in fedora

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 21:30:06 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Thunderbird may have done the quoting, but you did the trimming.
> Strange how you managed to trim out all of the stuff I wrote. It
> looks like you took a message that replied to one of mine, and
> trimmed out the part from me. I would expect someone with your
> claimed experience not to make a mistake like that. Or was it a mistake?

Do you see any quoting on the lines I included from here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-November/msg04679.html?

I think it was someone's line wrap issue, but it happened before I saw it.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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