setting up a home network the hard way

[Mip]

Hey Gang,

I'm trying to learn about setting up 2 machines for a little networking (ultimately having file, print, and ISP sharing).

I know that my cards and cables work, as I've been able to get it to work going from Laptop (mandrake 7.2) to box (Win98SE), and occaisionally when both machines have booted linux. Unfortunately, I set up the linux network using the various configuration utilities that come with Mandrake, and so don't really understand what's going on.

How do I go about setting up an ISP sharing network (box will be dialing into ISP) from the command line? I'd love to start from scratch so I can really learn this.

Thanks in advance,

M

[Ryeker]

This should help if you are using kernel v2.2.x:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/ipchains.html


Make sure your network works though. That way you can be certain you did everything right.

[Mip]

I had read (somewhere here) that messing with IP chains before getting basic network stuff down wasn't a good idea. Nevertheless, I'll take a look at the link. Thanks.

[jumpedintothefire]

for nic card troubles read: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO

for networking read: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO

Once the basics are set up then look the ipchains.

[Ryeker]

Originally posted by Mip:
I had read (somewhere here) that messing with IP chains before getting basic network stuff down wasn't a good idea. Nevertheless, I'll take a look at the link. Thanks.

Yes, absolutlely make sure your network setup works first! :D

[Stackrat]

All you ever wanted to know (and a lot of what you didn't even know you wanted to know) can be found here: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html

This site is the holy grail of Linux 2.2 kernel firewalling and much, much more!

[jumpedintothefire]

Slackrat's link is the next stop. It is the BEST doc on the subject. The author also writes the masq howto.

[Mip]

Thanks, I'll check that out (as soon as I can get my Zip drive to eject my disk - arrggh!)

M