I'm not really sure if the kernel supports Masquerading out-of-the-box, but here's what I did: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward (enables IP forwarding, neccesary to masq) ipchains -I forward -j MASQ (tell's ipchains to MASQ all packets meant for forwarding, but since you have only one public IP address (from your dialup), it has to masq in order to work. I use ipppd to dialin to my ISP. It's for ISDN. I'm not sure how to do it with a modem, sorry. Hope this helped you a bit Greetings, Rogier Samy Elashmawy wrote:

Hi Folks,

Finaly geting arount to ip-masq aka ip fowarding. I looked at the four documents in the ip masq docs directory , and am more confused than before.

My understanding is that the suse kernal allready suports ip masq. Right?

So all I should need to do is creatre/edit some config files and some how get the pc to start ip masq serives ect..

Any one got/ or know of some simplified "for dummies" type docs to get this going ?

What are the files needed to be created , and how configured ?

how are the serivices started in yast/linux ?

I hear wvdial wont work for dial up access to the net , what do I use ??

box 1 --------------| | box 2---------------+---------IP-MASQ / FIREWALL / DIAL UP MANAGER--------------phone line to isp----- | box 3---------------| | Linux Server--------+

Thanks all.

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