Am Dienstag, den 05.07.2005, 22:03 +0100 schrieb Lee W:
Is it absolutely necessary to use IP-Masq / NAT in order to setup Linux as a Router?
No.
I'm trying to setup a few Linux machines (Centos of course) as convential routers as opposed to Gateways so that I can learn more about routing between them on various Subnets.
All in all this is quite easy. Just skip the Masq-Stuff :) Another question is: do you want to firewall? You're talking about normal subnetting. This can be done w/o an iptables-configuration at all (just disable firewalling and enable ip-forwarding)
All the How-To's I've found talk about Masq, I would appreciate if anyone can point me in the direction of a convential Linux router howto.
I don't think there are any such documents. The whole thing is quite straightforward.
Regards, Anreas Rogge