Hi Linux Gurus!!!





























I'm using 2 Linux PCs (i386).














One of them has to become a Internet Gateway machine, so i can go with the other one over the LAN into the Internet.





























- Kernel 2.4.7














- Machine i386














- Linux SuSE 7.0





























BUT, how can I manage this???
























Please help!!!

You'll just need to turn on IP Masqurading and set ipchains up properly.

in my gateway's /etc/rc.local i have...

/sbin/ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

these two lines enable the internal network to communicate with the modem interface ppp0. This is a very simple low level version, and you might want a whole lot more config in ipchains, but it does the job for me.

you should now be able to ping the ouitside world from the LAN.

next you need to set the gaetway on your remote machine. This can be done in linuxconf, or by adding the line

gateway="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX file where X is the interface connected to the lan. probably 0. oh and replace all those x's with the gateways' IP.

That's the bare essentials really. Remeber to set up DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf and that's about it...

There are handy things like mserver available which sorts out remote modem dialling etc...

BUT if I run "/sbin/ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ" command, I become an error back: "Protocol not available" ????

ppp0 might not be the right interface. connect to the internet and run ifconfig on the machine that's connected to the internet.
This should display infos about your ethernet-devices and internet device. Might also be something like ippp0 or the alike.