On Tuesday 28 August 2001 11:13 am, Scott Parks wrote:
Morning-
I have been so impressed with Suse installing it for an ISP I am doing work for that I am considering blowing away my Mandrake 8 install @ home. This box replaced my Win@K box that was doing Internet Connection Sharing and failed miserably. The Mandrake box does not seem entirely stable, if I power down and then bring it back up to connect and share the Internet connection it does not work and I have to re-run the Connection Sharing scripts.
My question, is anyone using Suse for simple Internet Connection Sharing? How about multilink with ppp? I never got that to work under Mandrake, but one modem is still faster under Linux than two modems under Win2K.
This box has one job in life, connect to my ISP and share the connection to my internal network. Reconnect if the line is dropped.
Before I dive into the ipchains set-up I want to make sure there is not a script like Mandrake that might simplify this.
Thanks,
-Scott
Check out the SuSEfirewall2 script that is available from the SuSE site... (wish I had the URL but someone will chime in with it. This uses iptables which is much better-er and which you would someday move to anyway. Yes, you can certainly do well with SuSE linux as a server like you want. I'm typing this from such a setup.... 24/7 dial-up ppp with a static ip address and about 10 other items on the local LAN. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/28/01 11:26 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "RAM disk is *not* an installation procedure."