Make sure you have bind installed and two ethernet cards installed. Give the lan ethernet card a static IP such as 192.168.0.1 Use the firestarter package (www.fs-security.com). http://www.fs-security.com/ Run the wizard (5 screens) http://www.fs-security.com/pics/wizard3.png You're done! If you are curious about how to do this yourself, check /etc/ firestarter there is a "firewall" config file that shows every step the program did to enable forwarding, etc. If you are generally happy with the program, you can add in custom scripts in the user-pre file- they load before firestarters other rules and take precendence. If you hate the program, study what options it passes under the config file. On 03/30/2005 07:21:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 14:10 +0100, Joao Medeiros wrote: > > I've read a number of articles, googled the web for a few months > and > > now attempting at turning my CentOS box into a gateway for the > third > > time. Configured my dhcpd.conf and other related files and all > seems > > to be working, I can have my M$ desktop leasing an ip address and > all. > > > > The problem is when I want to go out to the internet I keep on > getting > > the Request Timed out error. > > > > I'm pretty sure I've followed the manuals to the letter. The > hardware > > is working fine. > > > > Any clues or pointers would be very much appreciated. > > > > TIA, > > Joao > > You need to do ip-masquerading to pass traffic thru a linux box as a > gateway. That requires 2 NICs and an iptables script which does > masquerading > > I use this script to setup that kind of box: > http://ldp.hughesjr.com/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/stronger-firewall-examples.html#RC.FIREWALL-2.4.X-STRONGER > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >
