Hi!
I would like to know how to share the internet connection that I have in my redhat 7.1 box in ppp0 to my home network through a eth0 connected to a HUB.
Thanks.

Use ipfwadm/ipchians/iptables.




The following commands may useful for u.


echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

ipfwadm -F -a m 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0



Siddiqu.T

Siddiqu,
After doing the echo command I did:
ipfwadm -F -a m 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
and I got this:
[root@localhost /root]# ipfwadm -F -a m 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
Unexpected argument `192.168.0.0/24'.

If this command worked with the original ipfwadm 2.3, please
submit a bug report to `ipchains@rustcorp.com'. Note that you
now need to be root, even to list the chains (complain to Alan Cox).

The best way to do this is to submit the output of `/sbin/ipfwadm --version',
the command used to obtain this error, any previous ipfwadm
commands, and the output of `ipchains-save'.

Then try flushing all the rules `ipchains -F; ipchains -X',
setting the DEBUG_IPFWADM variable `export DEBUG_IPFWADM=1' or
`setenv DEBUG_IPFWADM 1' and rerunning the command(s) which
caused this error.

Ain't an expert on this, can you tell me more,
Thanks

Ok forget what you've been told first decide what software you need.

Your using Redhat 7.1 so you should use a firewall on the Linux server that can do Network address translation. "NAT" or "MASQ" as it's called.

if you did a default install then ipchains is the default firewall software.

iptables is the netfilter firewall newer version of ipchians, but to make things simple start with ipchains.

So just to see if you can get NAT working on the linux box make sure the PC can ping the Linux box's ip address.
Then type this to allow NAT for the eth0 and dial out. "as root"

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
ipchains -F
ipchains -P input ACCEPT
ipchains -P output ACCEPT
ipchains -P forward ACCEPT
ipchains -A forward -i eth0 -j MASQ

Now set the default gateway on your PC to the Linux boxes ip address and set the DNS to your ISPs.

Now see if you can connect to the internet from the PC.

Note: this is not a firewall just a NATwall, you'll need to add rules to make it secure.

/Raz