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How to share internet connection?
Name: dadong Date: December 3, 2002 at 02:05:03 Pacific OS: linux CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
pls help me on how to share my internet connection to my workstations, what do i need? and how to configure? pls pls pls help me..
Name: uptown aj brown Date: December 3, 2002 at 04:36:21 Pacific
Reply:
a router/hub
a dsl/cable router should work right out of the box , just need cat-5 cables and nic cards in each workstation.
or you could go wireless :) with usb and a wireless hub. no cables necessary then.
linksys, belkin, dlink are a few vendors.
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Response Number 2
Name: Yanick Date: December 3, 2002 at 06:06:40 Pacific
Reply:
I have succeded sharing my modem internet connection with Mandrake 9, by issuing these commands.
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -m state --state NEW,INVALID -j REJECT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
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Response Number 3
Name: n0dez Date: December 3, 2002 at 06:34:34 Pacific
Reply:
what kind of internet access do you have? All you need are ethernet adapters (eg: if you have 2 computers, 2). Cable t10. The connector looks like the phoneline one but much bigger.
n0dez
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Response Number 4
Name: n0dez Date: December 3, 2002 at 07:18:35 Pacific
Reply:
after buying the hardware, you will need to setup your lan (this is the software part). how many computers wanna connect?
n0dez
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Response Number 5
Name: Luckster7 Date: January 9, 2003 at 15:42:07 Pacific
Reply:
The iptables commands above do not share my ppp0 connection out through eth0. Does anyone have some rules that work? I have modified a couple of scripts so that on boot /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is set to 1. I'm running Mandrake 9.
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