Using Red Hat Lunix 7.1 as a router

sunking299 · 05-10-2001, 09:14 PM

How do you set up Red Hat Lunix 7.1 to be used as a router for your network? I try using inform from a book on Red Hat Lunix 6.0, but it is not working. I can ping other sites from my Lunix system, but other computers connected to it cannot.

trickykid · 05-11-2001, 06:45 AM

Try this site for some answers. http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HO...ing-HOWTO.html

mrl · 05-11-2001, 12:38 PM

Hi there,

I had a similair question about a month ago, Razbot helped a great deal. Pmfirewall sorted my problem's out (on a very simple LAN - no sub-nets). You've maybe tried this though.

If you fancy trying it the Pmfirewall programme can be found at

http://www.pointman.org/

It is dead easy to set up and worked when other scripts and firewalls failed (including the one on the RH site and Firestarter). It sets up the IP masquerading for you (my IP is dynamic and it copes with that).

Just a thought ,

Best luck
Mike