dhurley
09-01-2002, 02:17 PM
Hi all, ultra-newbie here ... I've had SuSE Linux 8.0 for a couple of days (chose SuSE because of comments about hardware detection and ease of installatin, etc) now and I'm loving it for the most part. I also have XP on this machine and was using it to drive my internet connection for my other PC.
I have two NICS, one for the dsl modem and one for the 'network'. I could move the dsl connection over to the other pc and use it as the 'connection server', but that would be way too easy :)
I've done some 'net searches and there seems to be a lot of howtos out there about how to set up linux to be the gateway (ip masquerading) but it is mostly confusing for me and seems to be somewhat distribution specific.
Can anyone give me the steps or a link to setting up ip masquerading for SuSE 8.0? For now, I'm just booting back over to XP when the other person wants to access the internet from the Windows 98 PC, but that's a pain and I know linux can do it (and more securely). I want to learn linux and the best way to do that is use it! :)
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
P.S. I know the easiest and fastest way is to get a router and static IP address, but that will cost $15/month extra from my ISP ... and I'm mostly broke :)
I have two NICS, one for the dsl modem and one for the 'network'. I could move the dsl connection over to the other pc and use it as the 'connection server', but that would be way too easy :)
I've done some 'net searches and there seems to be a lot of howtos out there about how to set up linux to be the gateway (ip masquerading) but it is mostly confusing for me and seems to be somewhat distribution specific.
Can anyone give me the steps or a link to setting up ip masquerading for SuSE 8.0? For now, I'm just booting back over to XP when the other person wants to access the internet from the Windows 98 PC, but that's a pain and I know linux can do it (and more securely). I want to learn linux and the best way to do that is use it! :)
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
P.S. I know the easiest and fastest way is to get a router and static IP address, but that will cost $15/month extra from my ISP ... and I'm mostly broke :)