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| The Free Electron 2004-02-21, 2:34 am |
| New install
RH 9.0
Medium security
40GB HD, 512MB ram
external internet via a dialup
internal NIC card for networking
Can reach the internet most of the time
Cannot setup the NIC card (to another Linux computer)
Am using a crossover cable between the two computers.
In which directory do I setup iptables ?
Have looked at google, RH doc project, etc..
Have read that iptables can go in a number of
directories, and that /proc/net/iptables, or
/proc/net/ip_masquerade are the files I need.
Or are these two different files for networking?
Have a default iptables ( ipchains-1.3.9-17 )
On bootup, my eth0 is not setup due to no iptables.
After the two computers are working together,
I want to add two other computers (G3 iMac &
an XP Home system) via a 5 port switch.
Any ideas as to how to get this working?
TIA
Don
--
Please, Pray for Tina Lynn Hayden.
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| Robert M. Riches Jr. 2004-02-21, 6:34 am |
| In article <103eunlp5u2ca3a@corp.supernews.com>, The Free Electron wrote:
> New install
> RH 9.0
> Medium security
> 40GB HD, 512MB ram
> external internet via a dialup
> internal NIC card for networking
>
> Can reach the internet most of the time
> Cannot setup the NIC card (to another Linux computer)
> Am using a crossover cable between the two computers.
>
> In which directory do I setup iptables ?
> Have looked at google, RH doc project, etc..
> Have read that iptables can go in a number of
> directories, and that /proc/net/iptables, or
> /proc/net/ip_masquerade are the files I need.
> Or are these two different files for networking?
> Have a default iptables ( ipchains-1.3.9-17 )
>
> On bootup, my eth0 is not setup due to no iptables.
> After the two computers are working together,
> I want to add two other computers (G3 iMac &
> an XP Home system) via a 5 port switch.
>
> Any ideas as to how to get this working?
Red Hat has publixhed many ideas in the Customization Guide,
User's Manual, and Reference Manual. The Customization
Guide would be a good place to start for initial network
setup.
Red Hat has also provided a whole list of utilities, most of
them in GUI form. Do 'ls /usr/*bin/redhat-config-*'
(without the quote marks) or 'slocate redhat-config | grep
bin/' (also, without the quote marks) to find them.
The file for configuring iptables is
/etc/sysconfig/iptables. In my case, I added rules to
accept input packets from other IP addresses in my local
network.
Good luck.
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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