Hello folks, I just leafed through the archives, but couldn't seem to find anything that would help me (maybe I used the wrong keywords ... dunnow). Anyhow, here I am with my questions. I have an old box (P100, RAM 16Mb, HD 500Mb) on which I just installed Suse 7.0 (no graphic as you can imagine, HD space is tight enough as it is). I plan to use it as a router/gateway(and /firewall as soon as I can get the routing work) for one or two Win98/Linux boxes. Status for now is: - "router" (192.168.0.1) connects correctly to the internet (cable modem, DHCP) and I can use irc or browse with lynx. - "router" can see (ping) the win98 box. - win98 (192.168.0.2) box can see (ping) the router. - slight boot error with the NFS daemon, but I do not plan to use NFS for now so it should be OK. And that's about it. I recompiled the kernel (not sure this was needed, but thus I could get rid of a lot of unneeded options) to make sure that I had the right network options (networking support, networking firewalls, TCP/IP networking, IP: forwarding/gatewaying, IP: firewalling, IP: masquerading, IP: ipautofwmasquerade support, IP: ICMP masquerating, IP: always defragment, IP: optimize as router not host ... hope I got them all). I tried either rc.config, IP_FORWARD="yes" then SuSEconfig, or what I had found in a howto somewhere (can't remember where exactly): echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward; ipchains -P forward DENY; ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ ... the end result is always the same: the win98 box cannot acces internet (no ping, no ftp, no http, no irc). Any pointers/ideas? Do you think that the problem is on the Linux box or on the win98 one? TCP/IP config of the win98 box perhaps? (IP address 192.169.0.2, network mask 255.255.255.0, DNS and gateway 192.168.0.1) Thanks everyone :). Benoit.
Have you looked into freesco from www.freesco.org and smoothwall ? Freesco is a router on disk , works with linuxx and ms boxes. My only gripe is if you have any thing loaded in the ms auto start section that call an ip or web adress you will get a bunch of unwanted call outs on the modem. SmoothWall is similar , but is installed to the hardrive. I has a way cool web interface and allows any networked box to acess the router and manualy bring up the connection. this solved my unwanted dial out problem. Both are very easy to se tup and install even for a newbie like me. Suse can do all of this , but you have to set it all up and that takes a lot more time and juice. The two above distros woork real well on low end stuff and will get you up and running fast. Both have built in firewalling as well. At 11:44 AM 1/30/2001 +0100, Benoit POSTE wrote:
Hello folks,
I just leafed through the archives, but couldn't seem to find anything that would help me (maybe I used the wrong keywords ... dunnow). Anyhow, here I am with my questions. I have an old box (P100, RAM 16Mb, HD 500Mb) on which I just installed Suse 7.0 (no graphic as you can imagine, HD space is tight enough as it is). I plan to use it as a router/gateway(and /firewall as soon as I can get the routing work) for one or two Win98/Linux boxes. Status for now is: - "router" (192.168.0.1) connects correctly to the internet (cable modem, DHCP) and I can use irc or browse with lynx. - "router" can see (ping) the win98 box. - win98 (192.168.0.2) box can see (ping) the router. - slight boot error with the NFS daemon, but I do not plan to use NFS for now so it should be OK. And that's about it. I recompiled the kernel (not sure this was needed, but thus I could get rid of a lot of unneeded options) to make sure that I had the right network options (networking support, networking firewalls, TCP/IP networking, IP: forwarding/gatewaying, IP: firewalling, IP: masquerading, IP: ipautofwmasquerade support, IP: ICMP masquerating, IP: always defragment, IP: optimize as router not host ... hope I got them all). I tried either rc.config, IP_FORWARD="yes" then SuSEconfig, or what I had found in a howto somewhere (can't remember where exactly): echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward; ipchains -P forward DENY; ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ ... the end result is always the same: the win98 box cannot acces internet (no ping, no ftp, no http, no irc). Any pointers/ideas? Do you think that the problem is on the Linux box or on the win98 one? TCP/IP config of the win98 box perhaps? (IP address 192.169.0.2, network mask 255.255.255.0, DNS and gateway 192.168.0.1)
Thanks everyone :). Benoit.
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Benoit POSTE wrote:
I just leafed through the archives, but couldn't seem to find anything that would help me (maybe I used the wrong keywords ... dunnow). Anyhow, here I am with my questions. I have an old box (P100, RAM 16Mb, HD 500Mb) on which I just installed Suse 7.0 (no graphic as you can imagine, HD space is tight enough as it is). I plan to use it as a router/gateway(and /firewall as soon as I can get the routing work) for one or two Win98/Linux boxes. Status for now is: - "router" (192.168.0.1) connects correctly to the internet (cable modem, DHCP) and I can use irc or browse with lynx. - "router" can see (ping) the win98 box. - win98 (192.168.0.2) box can see (ping) the router. - slight boot error with the NFS daemon, but I do not plan to use NFS for now so it should be OK. And that's about it. I recompiled the kernel (not sure this was needed, but thus I could get rid of a lot of unneeded options) to make sure that I had the right network options (networking support, networking firewalls, TCP/IP networking, IP: forwarding/gatewaying, IP: firewalling, IP: masquerading, IP: ipautofwmasquerade support, IP: ICMP masquerating, IP: always defragment, IP: optimize as router not host ... hope I got them all). I tried either rc.config, IP_FORWARD="yes" then SuSEconfig, or what I had found in a howto somewhere (can't remember where exactly): echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward; ipchains -P forward DENY; ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ ... the end result is always the same: the win98 box cannot acces internet (no ping, no ftp, no http, no irc). Any pointers/ideas? Do you think that the problem is on the Linux box or on the win98 one? TCP/IP config of the win98 box perhaps? (IP address 192.169.0.2, network mask 255.255.255.0, DNS and gateway 192.168.0.1)
It's nice to have a clear, thorough description for once ;-) First (perhaps obvious) question is: is DNS actually running on the router? For testing purposes *only*, use the following commands once you've booted up the router: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ipchains -P input ACCEPT ipchains -P forward MASQ ipchains -P output ACCEPT This will allowing anything and everything... Try again with this configuration of the router. If this still doesn't work, blame Windows. Do a 'route print' on the Windows box. This should produce something like: 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 You could also try to ping 216.239.35.100 (google.lb.google.com) to see if it's a DNS problem. Let me know how you get on, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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