Thanks for the replies. Steve's caveat about not messing with a good thing is damn compelling, but I'd really like to get the machine upgraded especially for the new firewall. I'll look at the below and hope for th ebest!!! Nick On Friday 10 May 2002 20:08, you wrote:
You can do all the dialondemand, masquerading within yast2 in 8.0
Masquerading seems to be part of the firewall setup which Im pleased to see, as I didnt want to be fiddling with iptables etc at the moment.
Yast2 - security - Firewall,
edit respective settings until you get to Masquerading option - Tick the box and thats it.
Dial on demand. You're modem should be detected automatically, when you configure it there is a tick box for "dial on demand", you may also want to go into /etc/sysconfig/networks and edit ifcfg-ppp0 to have the parameter STARTMODE="onboot" in it, this seems to call "cinternet --start" which means dialondemand is started automatically. Thats that bit sorted.
Yast2 - Network Basic - Modem Configuration.
Once you have completed these tricky (!) steps....
If you go into kde you should see the kinternet icon in the taskbar showing the status of the modem and allowing you to view parameters,hang up etc More amazing, if you set a machine up to use the server as a gateway, kinternet pops up in kde for the client machines too and you can control the modem from those machines. This nearly caused me to fall out of my seat yesterday when it appeared. ( Im slowly setting up a server for a local charity I help with IT stuff )
The bit that caught me out until Anders pointed out the mistake was that some ISP's need the parameter STUPIDMODE="yes" in your provider-file in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers
once that was sorted I was in dialup heaven ( err no, I hate modems !! ) So you can do it all with yast, bar the stupidmode thing./
pretty neat. well done suse !!
dids
hi, I have a machine with Suse 7.2 doing IP forwarding and masquerading for my network. It's also doing dial on demand.
I'd like to upgrade that machine to 8.0. What id like to know is specifically which files from the 7.2 machine I should back up and study to know the parameters it's currently using so that when I do the 8.0 install I can properly set up similar services.
I didn't do the original configuration so it's all very confusing.
Can anyone help?
Thanks, Nick