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Hello
I have redhat 8 and would like to share my net connection
((urgh - google it - i hear you say))
well i found an article on ip masquerading ...which seems to be what i am looking for. but the article https://secure.linuxports.com/howto/IP-MASQ/
only describes it for 2.2 kernells whereas im running 2.4,
so i went and asked if anybody knew any articles about it...and they said look up iptables . (which got me confused) what is different from ip tables and masquerading??
and which do i need to use?
As i cant really search for help without knowing what im looking for!
but...
at the top of the page it says
"At this point, you should have your kernel and other required packages installed. All network IP addresses, gateway, and DNS addresses should be configured on your Linux MASQ server"
and i cant see anywhere in the tutorial it talking about setting up the server ip/gateway/dns address...
well havnt got round to setting up net yet ...
although my modem (bt voyager) does have eci drivers
so i dont think it shud be too much of a problem ((touch wood))
hello again
i've just been browsing the firestarter site... and from reading the setup page it seems soooooooo much simpler!!!!
is it really as easy as it sounds lol ...cos from my experience in linux things usually arent that simple.
I was thinking that if it works like it says then i can setup a temporary connection sharing "service" till i can manage to get my head around iptables and the like.
managed to get the internet up and running at last. I think the biggest problem i had was setting up the modem.
But once the modem was working it was a 2 second job getting the internet shared with firestarter....but now i would really love to learn how to use iptables etc.
i have configured firestarter to open ports 4662 and 4672 ((both used by emule))
but when trying to connect to a server i get the error "LOWID" which is caused because the ports are not accessible ....i cant understand it!
any ideas?
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