[CentOS] How can i share my WAN ip to my LAN?

Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 14:52:19 UTC 2008


On Jan 22, 2008 3:17 PM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 14:49 +0100, Alain Spineux wrote:
> > On Jan 22, 2008 8:46 AM, Tolun ARDAHANLI <tolun.ardahanli at linux.org.tr> wrote:
> > > Hi everybody...
> > >
> > > How can I share my WAN ip to my LAN? How can I do that I really dont
> > > know...:( I am using linux long time ago but this kind I would like to do
> > > newly...
> >
> > Buy a small router/modem, ask your ISP for suggestions.
> > This is cheap (<100$), no need to keep your computer always turned on,
> > very easy to configure
> > if you nead more features (port forwarding for skype, games, p2p, ....),
> > have some builtint feature (dhcp, DNS proxy). Also think about wireless ......
> > This is probably more secure, not because centos/linux is not,
> > but because you dont know what you are doing.
> >
> > Of course this is less fun
>
> Well, I wasn't going to suggest, but since the topic of alternatives is
> open...

:-)

Of course the main idea is to avoid to have a non firewall dedicated
linux (like centos is) configured by
someone without to much network knowledge be in front of Internet.

>
> If you have an older available computer laying around, check out IPCop
>
>     http://www.ipcop.org/
>
> free, has lots of features, runs reliably, I've been on it for years, as
> have others on this list. Biggest gripe I have is docs could be a little
> better - they tend to not get updated to stay up with the software.
>
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > >
> > > Can anybody help me about IP sharing in Centos?
> > >
> > > thanks alot...
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tolun ARDAHANLI
> > > Bilgisayar Muhendisi
> > > E-posta:tolun.ardahanli at linux.org.tr
> > > Icq:326600
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Tolun ARDAHANLI
> > > Computer Engineer
> > > E-mail:tolun.ardahanli at linux.org.tr
> > > Icq:326600
> > ><snip sig stuff>
>
> HTH
> --
> Bill
>
>
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