On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:49:11 -0600, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With Google look for Linux Networking-HOWTO and d/l it. It needs to > be read. Networking is hard. But what you want to do is going to require > a root to be made between your LAN and the Internet. And then read the LARTC How To. Fedora's network management stuff isn't that great for complicated network setups. But you can put 'ip' commands in your rc.local file to do more complicated things with the proviso that ifdown followed by ifup may not restore things properly. Also you may want to consider setting up a bridge instead of routing traffic. That may involve less fiddling around later if their is a device on your network handing out the private IP addresses (via DHCP). > > If you fall asleep reading you can buy a cheap home rooter that will > do what you need :-) You might want to buy the home router anyway, especially if you find the network stuff interesting. You can get a very nice toy (wireless router with 5 ethernet ports) for $45. Flash it with OpenWRT or DDWRT and you can have a lot of fun playing around with filtering, routing and/or traffic shaping. I have a Buffalo WHR-G54S and a Buffalo WHR-G125. These are the recommended low cost routers. They have Broadcom chips and currently the available firmware is for 2.4 kernels. That should be changing over the next year. But if you really want to play with 2.6 kernels now, there are other routers you can buy.
