My Debian box is connected to the linksys LAN by a wireless card on eth0. It is also connected to my windows box using a second ethernet card and a cross-over cable.

How do I get Debian to pass the internet along to the windows box?

I did this about a month ago except with windows on the master computer and debian on slave and it worked fine. Then I had to switch the HDDS between the two boxes so XP could suck on the bigger processor.

Thanks,
Raven


ps.

Master:
Pentium III, Debian-mostly-stable (sarge?) w/ KDE 3.4.1
Kernel: 2.6.8-2-386

Slave:
Pentium IV, Win-XP Pro

Do you have a firewall installed?

Technically, you do. The linux kernel has a built in firewall called iptables, but it doesn't do much (anything?) on it's own. It's designed to do the real work when a firewall front end gives it instructions. These other firewalls also deal with such things as bridging and masquerading (etc).

There is a simple way to make your computer forward trafic. The problem is, I don't remember what it is exactly. Don't quote me on this, but the command is something like:
cat "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

The problem with this is that it only lasts until the system is rebooted. A better option would be to find a good firewall program that will do if for you each time you boot the system.

If your lucky it should be as simple as telling your windows box that your linuxbox is the gateway to the internet. You might have to adjust firewalls to pass packets in different directions and on the linux box there is a switch in /proc that needs to be set. This should all be avilable thru the Kontrol Centre in KDE, I think

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