Re: internet access

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Toto Gamez wrote:
> Hi,
> Im newbie to RH and was able to configure to make my RH box a dialin server
> using mgetty and ppp unfortunately when my W2K/W98 established a connection
> to my dialin server i cant browse the internet. I tried to ping the RH
> server and it give me a good reply but i can,t ping the other workstation
> connected to the network. What must be the problem. Please help.

You need to set up ipforwarding to make your box into a router.
Try adding this to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, but you
can try it manually to see if your problem goes away:

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

That turns on ipforwarding.  Also, you must be able to see the
internet from your Linux box.  And look CAREFULLY at installing
iptables or ipchains on the linux box to set up firewalling.  Once
you put a windows box on the internet, you're asking for trouble.
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