Hi all

I would like to know how to share a Cable Modem. I have 2 ethernet cards in the system 1 which is eth0 is for the lan and it works fine but eth1 is for the cable modem and works fine. Without buying routers is there anyway of being able to share the modem. Ie. getting information to transfer from eth1 to eth0 and then go the hub to other machines.

How would I go about this as having a cable modem is new and sharing is new to me.

I never had to do this before hand as other people want to surf the net while I am on my PC. I want to give that oppertunity to do so.

Vincent

I do this with a module called "ipf" - but that's old school - and you really don't want to do it that way (trust me).

However - you might surf the web for some information on IPChains...

Section 7 is excellent.

In Mandrake there is a control centre option to do with Internet sharing. Not sure if there is something similar in SuSE.

In the Linuxconf utility you can set up firewalling and masquerading (Network Address Translation). This should get you going.

One thing to note with NTL broadband is that I think they register the MAC address you used initially on their system, so that if you change (i.e. when you put a new PC on the cable modem) you may find that it doesn't work any more.

I found this website very useful recently when trying to get a friend's router to work on NTL:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.../techsupp.html

Hope this helps

A.