this has probably been asked a million times on here;

i run redhat 7.1 networked with a windows 98se machine. i can ping the linux box from windows, and vise versa, but i cant access the internet with my win machine through the network and linux. i've tried firestarter that didnt work, plz help

Set the linux boxes ip address as the windows boxes default gateway.
Make sure that DNS is set up correctly for the windows box.

Read: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquer...WTO/index.html

i'd recommend using firestarter as a very quick way to install a firewall and connection sharing in one go. have a search for it.

i tried firestarter and it just errored, nothing would work with it. i've tried 329843032 times to get this to work and searched high and low, i just cant get it. i'll try it dorward, thanx

Why not just set up dhcp server. This would make the win boxes very happy

i dont know how to thou.
Fuck i should have paid attention at the linux meet.

Hi there!

I too have a networked linux and windows box (2000), didn't want to start a new thread since I think it's quite related. I don't know how to share my internet connection on my windows 2000 laptop with my RH 7.3 Desptop?

anyone please help?

which box do you want to be the "gateway" if its windows then its very simple goto networking and put net work connection to accept connection then in the setting tell it to give a dhcp adress and share internet ad thats it.


with linux i dont really know how to with masqerade....

dhcp server seems easier but i dont know what pacakges i need to set up dhcp server.

I have to use windows for my gateway... It's just difficult to get support where I am in right now...

Do you mean to say that I just have to setup Internet Connection Sharing on my windows box and set it to assign dhcps? What should I have to do with the linux box?

Sorry, I'm really new to all of this, I appreciate any help...

this tread has been done before on here, but there seems to be alot of doulble posting on this site so don't worry about it

The easiest way to get another machine to access the internet through a linux box is to setup ipcahins or more recently iptables to do simple masqing.

I use ipchains like so to share a link...

ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -s xxx.xxx,xxx.xxx -j MASQ

entered on the server with the ip of the client machine specified (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx should be something like 192.168.0.11)

You then need to specify the DNS in /ect/resolve.conf.

If you have not yet setup a DNS then just set this to look at the DNS of your service provider.

Dear all,

I have encountered the same problem.

I set up red hat 7.3 with 2 network cards: eth0 and eth1.

eth0 is connected to the ISP and I set the DNS as look at the DNS of your service provider with DHCP.

eth1's ip is 192.168.0.1 Subnet mask 255.255.255.0

Surely, routed service is started.

ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

In Window 2000 server, ip is 192.168.0.2 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 Gateway 192.168.0.1

From window machine, ping 192.168.0.1 - ok
From red hat box, ping 192.168.0.2 - ok

But, window machine cannot connect to the Internet.

What's wrong with my setting and how should I fix it?

Thanks in advance

gogo