Anders Dahlqvist wrote:
Here's the layout: A friend of mine, who is a NT sysadmin, although open-minded, asked me two days ago if I could replace one of his servers whith a LINUX-box that does simple IP-masquearading before Wednesday next week, i.e 2000-03-05. If not he would have to buy the third-party NAT software whose demo-license expired last week. I told him that I would give it a try, if he would rely on SuSE. I have no previous experience whith IP-chains, but I read the various related HOW-TOS and it doesn't seem impossible. I also found that SuSE 6.4 comes with the program gfcc, which seems to make IP-chains a little easier for thee beginner. If I succeed I might save a poor soul from the NT persuasion - I hope you see how important this is. Now the question: has anyone out there had any experience whith gfcc and if so fdo you have any tips or recommendations? I would be glad to just hear that it works out of the box!
This is a bit late, considering the deadline of today, but... To get very basic masquerading working, you basically need the following ipchians rule: ipchains -A forward -j MASQ combined with: echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Note that this provides absolutely *no* security whatsoever - that'll have to be set up more carefully. The IPCHAINS-HOWTO should provide the necessary info for firewalling, while the IP-Masquerade HOWTO will give you a hand with masq. I'm afraid I can't help you with gfcc as I've never used it myself. I suppose that since you've passed your deadline, I should ask how it went - did you succeed? Well? Bye, Chris -- Sorry everybody - all the servers at the ISP I use for email have been down for the past four days. They've come back up again, so now I have to catch up on all that mail... __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/