I'm doing a lot of research and documentation, but I still haven't figured out how to make my debian stable, with 2.6 kernel work as a router/firewall server
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I want it to route my ip's so the other can see them, the only thing my server shoul do is to restrict access when I want to and provide my mininetwork with the decent security linux provides.
By this time i am stuffed with articles telling me how to make a router with 1 public IP and the internal network with privete IP's (e.g. 192.168.x.x).
I also want to do this without a proxy server, I know this is possible, also DHCP server so in case I add another PC I shouldn't waste time setting up the network again...
I hope that by the time of my retirement I shall figure it out
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Or maybe someone here can point me in the right direction or even better, help me with a specific step-by-step routine that aplies to my case.
So back to basic linux networking I go, I am not sorry for that, I learned a lot, hte support of linux community is the greatest of all, but I still haven't achieved my goal.