Hi, Im running CentOS and I am wandering how I can make it the Gateway?

I have the interent working on it successfully but I cant seem to share the access. Any help? I have both different Linux distros and Windows machines on my network.

I would prefer to not have to compile anything .

Ok thanks for your help.

I'm not exactly sure if I understood you correctly, but it seems that you have a LAN where one of the machines has an internet connection, and you want this connection to be available to all the machines on the net? If so, you either need a proxy (if you have dial-up - look for squid or wwwoffle), or, if the connection is permanent and with a static IP address, you may simply turn routing on the machine with the connection on (edit route.conf, usually in /etc/sysconfig/network, and turn ip forwarding on).

BTW I think Mandrake should come with squid and/or wwwoffle, or you should be able to download a readily compiled package from the net.

HTH

Yes I think you have missunderstood. I should update my profile though I think it may be useless since I run many linux machines all with different distros.

My question is how do i make my linux box(with an ADSL internet connection) a gateway to allow the other machines on my LAN connect to the internet?

Just to clairfy im running centos 3.4

This is exactly what I understood - but the second option (routing) I gave is of course crap (since even if you have a static IP, it will be, well, only one). You'll need a proxy (to be run on the machine with the ADSL connection) - squid or wwwoffle. If it doesn't come with centos, I fear you will very likely have to compile from source.

See here:
http://www.squid-cache.org/
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/