Re: RH9 as a router with a ppp dialup

["A. John Peters" <ajpeters ajpconsult com>]

On 5/14/03 8:31 AM, "Bob McClure Jr" <robertmcclure earthlink net> wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0500, A. John Peters wrote:
>> I have a rh 9 I am setting up as a router.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 4 devices on network 192.168.2.5-8  getting info from DHCP
>> 
>> The redhat 9 device is 192.168.2.31  It also has a modem using ppp.  It gets
>> the ppp address through dhcp
>> 
>> Default router is 192.168.2.31 for the 4 devices
>> 
>> How to I route to outside world using ppp if I do not have a static address?
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> PS,  some of this info could replace the word ppp with DSL
> 
> For the other machines, other than the .31 machine, their gateway is
> .31.  For the .31 machine, he should have defaultroute set in the ppp
> options, so that his gateway is his ppp connection.
> 
> It would be a good idea to set up a firewall on the RH 9 box to NAT
> traffic between your internal net and the Internet.
> 
> Cheers,

On the ppp options, I have address, subnet mask and Gateway.

The subnet should be 255.255.255.0.  How about the other 2

Should I put anything in the route of the .31

I am firewalling this machine after I have the routing fixed.