Internet connection sharing between two boxes

[cliff here]

Thanks, i was just curious because we used a weird bridging set for voip
phones to share the connection provided from one box.. but Iptables works
just as well

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:50 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > I had a method way back I think it was in RHEL 4, on how to bridge two
> > interfaces together.
> >
> > Basically what I want to do would be described as windows internet
> > connection sharing ICS (sorry for the windows example)
> >
> > I basically want to take 1 machine with two NIC's  and connect a  2nd to
> > it and have access to the network either on private subnet or with a
> > public IP, which ever is easiest.
>
> You should read up on *Nix networking.
>
> What I had at home was
>   two NICs in a firewall/router box (WITH ALMOST NOTHING ON IT)
>   cable modem to one NIC
>   other NIC to a cheap switch
>   several computers connected to switch
>
> Set NAT and masquerading on the firewall/router
>
> Another route, which I'm probably going to do now, is buy a cheap router,
> with a few ethernet ports and wireless (for company with laptop), and
> broadband to router, computers to router.
>
>          mark
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