[NTLUG:Discuss] Help on replacing My Wingate Server

[Brian]

Ray--

I'm not too sure what books you've been reading, but my Linux network
"bible" is the Linux Networking Guide (published by O'Reilly, previously by
SSC, also available freeon-line) by Olaf Kirsch (I believe that's the
correct spelling).  It's fairly old, but much of the information is still
very relevant.

I use diald for automatic dialing.  It has a nice GUI front-end that allows
you to monitor various daemon properties, run in manual mode, etc.  It works
well with IP masquerading (I would assume it would work with ipchains also,
but that's a WAG on my part).  It will work "right out of the box," or you
can tune it to the nth degree.

As for routing tables, I believe the Kirsch book covers this in some detail.

IP masquerading/ipchains takes care of IP address translation for you,
there's nothing really to do on your part.  If you want to know exactly how
it's done, I guess you'll have to dig up a how-to, look at the source code,
or maybe someone here will explain it to you.  I seem to recall a how-to
called NET3 that covered IP masquerading in some detail.

Hope this helps some.  This sounds like a good topic to cover at one of the
NTLUG meetings...

  --Brian

Ray Foley wrote:

> Ok I have gotten alot of help with the Ipchains part now what
> the real issue is: How does anyone do the auto dialup part. How
> does anyone setup routing. How does anyone define gateway
> addresses and soforth. I have read through about 5 different books
> and I can still see 100 different ways to do the above. I have gotten
> the impression that this is easy as many have told me that RH6.0 does
> this out of the box. I must be doing my install incorrectly as I cannot
> make this happen or I am not defining what I am trying to do. The
> basic concept here is that (for example sake I will use example IP's
> here)
> I have a workstation that has a static IP of 192.168.0.8 and a Linux
> server
> that I want defined as IP address 192.168.0.254. Now when Netscape is
> opened on my workstation 192.168.0.8, I want the server, 192.168.0.254
> to autodial my Internet America account, Login, and connect using the
> PPP
> protocol. Then any further request from Netscape will be routed to
> Internet
> America by the server 198.168.0.254 using its dynamicly assigned IP
> address
> it was given by IA. This is what most people that are starting out with
> more than one machine will setup so I really want to know the details of
>
> how this stuff works so I can teach others.
>
>                                                         Thanks again
>                                                         Ray Foley
>                                                         Beginners Group
> Leader
>
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