Webmin - Network Config - Routing & Gateways

[GreenBeret]

I'm playing around with Webmin - I think it's a great tool for Linux newbies like me to manage the system :) I've been using Firestarter to share the Internet connection from this RedHat 9 machine to the other WinXP PC over a LAN connection. I was checking the Network Configuration section in Webmin and thought that Routing & Gateways might be able to share the Internet connection for me. However, although I have read some guides on this (searching via google) I still can't work out what I should enter :p Could anyone help me ?

- My Internet connection on the RH9 box is ADSL via PPPoE - eth1 (192.168.1.1/255.255.0.0)

- My LAN connection is on eth0 (192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0)

- My WinXP machine is 192.168.0.83/255.255.255.0

Many thanks :)

Edit:

I have attempted the following to share the Internet connection:

- Using Firestarter: successful

- Using Network Configuration in RedHat9 menu (under System Settings) to edit the routing info of NICs. Here's what I've done:

ADSL eth1 routes to LAN eth0; LAN eth0 routes to WinXP NIC.

I have even restarted the network (but haven't restarted the RH box yet) but it still doens't work.

[chrism01]

I think you'll find that you're going to need dhcp on your eth1 (unless you've paid for a static ip from your ISP).
In either case, the subnet 192.168.x.x is reserved for private addresses and cannot be used to connect to the public internet. There are several posts on JL re this.

HTH

[GreenBeret]

Originally posted by chrism01
I think you'll find that you're going to need dhcp on your eth1 (unless you've paid for a static ip from your ISP).
In either case, the subnet 192.168.x.x is reserved for private addresses and cannot be used to connect to the public internet. There are several posts on JL re this.

HTH


Sorry I wasn't being clear :p My ADSL uses ppp0 and it has DHCP on that....the card that connects to it is eth1 and I set the IP to static 192.168.1.1.....and it works just fine on this RH9 box.

[michaelchileshe]

Why not just use squid to share your internet connection from the linux box.

Squid is a proxy server and webmin has a module for that.