I have an ancient asus box as my middle-man. It hasn't been rebooted for 64 days, and only then because we had a power failure. Before that it was 277 days. I was going for a year of uptime. It is running something like RH 8+. Meaning to upgrade to FC, but.. As I recall, the magic incantation was to enable FORWARDING. # Turn on forwarding echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Note that this needs to wait until you have your firewall up and running, othewise.. Hope this helps BobG On 6/25/05, Dotan Cohen wrote >On 6/25/05, Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> If you are interested in cheap cheap, get another NIC for one of your >> computers (I have seen them for $9.95) and configure that one as a firewall >> - passing on packets to your other computer attached to the new NIC. You >> can use a crossover cable to directly connect the NICs in the two >> computers, thus avoiding the cost of a HUB. >> > >Thanks, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. The FC4 box has an >onboard network connection (going to the winXP box with a crossover >cable) and a NIC going to the modem. I got a little stuck on >configuring the FC4 box because I wanted it to be the middle man. But >it looks as if I'm going to have to do it with the winXP box because I >can't get the winXP box online through the Fedora box. Tomorrow I'll >put the spare NIC in the winXP box and try it as the middle man. > >If anybody on-list has gotten this to work successfully, then PLEASE >share your setup with me! IPtables scripts a must!!! I don't want the >winXP box as the middle man because I don't want to turn it on all the >time... > >Dotan >http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/108/carey_mariah.php >Maraih Carey Lyrics
