hey i'm kinda new with linux and very very unfamiliar with networking.. any here's my situation... our company has currently installed 2 broadband connection on the server.. all the workstations have their ip's blocked by the servers so that they cannot have access to the internet.. only 2 linux server (one is cent OS and the other red hat enterprise) have an access to the internet.. so i was asked to investigate about making the linux servers act as router so that my workstation can access the internet through the linux servers.... i found several topics about routing but i think my situation is a bit different because the linux server is not really the source of the internet but rather only a workstation in itself..

so can anyone help me out... or please point me to the right direction.. i've tried ipmasq, iproute2, iptables but doesn't seem to work... and also, please make your instructions very simple because i've not really studied much on networking....

thanks a lot =)

one solution for small business would be to use NAT (network address translation) and let the linux server offer DHCP addresses to your network. You could also use squid and/or dansguardian to filter your internet at work. You would have to set up the following:

DHCP server
Squid
Dansguardian
Firewall ports (for the local network)

Of course, there are other ways to go This is just one of them!

hey thanks... i'll look into that... =)
here's the network configuration.. internet access: 192.25.253.1 my local pc: 192.25.253.119 linux servers 192.25.253.5 and 192.25.253.121

so can anyone please show me how to have access on 192.25.253.1 using 192.25.253.5 as the gateway of my pc 192.25.253.119.. please and thanks

ey can anyone teach me about this command "iptables -t nat etc.etc." i tried an example and it made the routing work .. my problem is people who posted the command also added that it will leave the network unprotected. =)