[H-GEN] Re: Unix vs NT (religious war :-)

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(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs root <dougy at gargoyle.apana.org.au>)

Thanks Robert .... I'm just in middle of renumbering eth0's so I can
find 
another IP address so ppp0 & eth0 have one each instead of sharing
203.3.126.129

> 
> First of all, make sure that the router is forwaridng packets (someone
> else has already mentioned this):

I can ping internet IP's & LAN IP's OK ..... that should indicate
packets are going wherever they should I guess

> 
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

The GUI thingy from Redhat seems to do that stuff 

> 
> Then, setup the route to the lan on the router itself.  Each client on the
> lan will also need to have a route setup for the lan.  I've used IPs here
> from a private subnet but substitute for your own IPs of course.

Thats a confusing bit ...... is it simply a matter of issuing those
commands for every host or is there something more involved ??

Whats the situation if there is already a route in existance ??

> 
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
> route add -net 192.168.1.0
> 
> Then setup each client box to point to your router (192.168.1.1 in this
> example) as gateway.
> 
already did that 


do I need to get concerned with subnet on the internet connection ??


> There are some switches for ifconfig which you may have to specify such
> as netmask and broadcast, as they are alot more difficult for the box to
> guess under CIDR (the new subnetting/routing standard) than they were
> under the old class A,B and C designations (due to the nature of the old
> class designations, it was pretty much a no-brainer what the netmask,etc
> was).
> 
> Here is an example:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> Cheers,
>         -Robert
> 
> --Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
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