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I am trying to configure Internate Sharing using NAT (MASQUERADE).
I have linuc box with Red Hat 9.0 with two NIC. One NIC eth0 is connected to my ISP which dials out using PPTP (I am using RP-PPPOE-3.5 for ADSL connection)
I have other NIC eth1 connected to my HOME Network which gives out IP as Linux box works as DHCP server also.
After trying everything I am still unable to share the net connection.
That's right, smoothwall needs another box. But shorewall also works well... I used shorewall for about 6 months while I didn't have a router/smoothwall box...
Smoothwall doesn't need much to run on BTW. Any old pentium will do. Mine is a P166MMX with 32meg ram and a 1gig drive. Only need a cd, monitor and keyboard to install, then it runs headless.
Around here people throw away computers like that, but probably not in india...
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