router

how can I use mandriva 2006 as a router ?

We need more details than this to answer your question.

Will the box be a dedicated router - if so the Mandriva is overkill. Look into something such as Smoothwall, which is designed specifically for this purpose.

If you want to use Mandriva, then you just need to set up port forwarding with IPTABLES. Google for how to do this.

--Ian

I've used Mandy as a router/firewalled-gateway/proxy-server.

But the tutorial is based on mandrake 9.x and there is no support for it.
It was produced by a magazine in Australia called Atomic MPC. www.atomicmpc.com
Just lately they are running an ubunto(?) tute on a similar thing.

Basically, I had three network cards and an onboard network interface in the one box.

The onboard was connected to the cable-modem. tHE PROXY-SERVER SAVED ME HEAPS OF BANDWIDTH, (Oops,Caps)

From going to the same pages all the time, most of the data was accessed from the proxy and then updated from the net(www)

It was a great bandwidth saver, I had an old Mac, my laptop and my main PC all connected to it and then

I was able to share files and resources from behind a firewalled server.

I still have a copy of the tute if you'd like a copy. It is copywritten, so I cant post it here.

And remember it has no support.

If you want a copy let me know and I can email it to you. Zipped it is just over a megabyte

Uber Linux Project.zip
size on disk: 1.15 MB (1,212,416 bytes)
Created: Today, 1 July 2006, 12:17:34 PM

plz post it here

Originally Posted by GlennsPref I still have a copy of the tute if you'd like a copy. It is copywritten, so I cant post it here.

Read above

It's over 60 pages,

There are also some scripts available.

Here's a tib-bit.........

#!/bin/sh
#
# Atomic IPTables firewall script v1.2
#
# Simple but effective firewall written for
# the Atomic Uber Linux box guide,
# Issue 21, Oct 2002
#
# Updated May 2003 for bandwidth shaping
#
# Ashton Mills
# amills@iinet.com.au

# Environment variables, change these values accordingly

EXT_IF=eth0
INT_IF=eth1
INT_NET=192.168.1.0/24

ANY=0.0.0.0/0

IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables
MODPROBE=/sbin/modprobe

#
## You shouldn't need to touch anything below here
#

# Load appropriate iptables modules, others will be loaded dynamically on demand

$MODPROBE ip_tables
$MODPROBE iptable_filter
$MODPROBE ip_nat_ftp
$MODPROBE ip_conntrack
$MODPROBE ip_conntrack_ftp

# Set proc values for TCP/IP. In order:
#
# Disable IP spoofing attacks
# Ignore broadcast pings
# Block source routing
# Kill redirects
# Set acceptable local port range
# Allow dynamic IP addresses
# Enable forwarding (gateway)

echo "2" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route
echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_redirects
echo "32768 61000" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

# Flush everything

$IPTABLES -F INPUT
$IPTABLES -F OUTPUT
$IPTABLES -F FORWARD
$IPTABLES -t nat -F
$IPTABLES -t mangle -F

#
## --- DEFAULT POLICY --- ##
#

# Drop everything on INPUT and FORWARD chains, accept OUTPUT........................."




(this is about 10% of the firewall script, there are instructions to use/follow with this.)


Give me an email address to send it to and you can print it off.

It is a total installation, instructional tutorial.

Good luck.

What do you intend to use this box for? Smoothwall rocks as a router! My favourate is still IPCop though. I use IPCop in many large networks and I never have problems. IPCop is based on Smoothwall so either is cool.

Give em a try.