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Re: [LI] home networking problem..pls help



Ali Maula Ali Mauli Ali DamDam forced the electrons to say:
> i have few computers in my home that need to be
> networked...

Hmm... 5 easy steps to share a modem among many computers:

You have one modem and a few computers, right? I am also assuming you have a
hub, enough cabling and ethernet cards. What you have to do is this:

1. Set up one of the machines as the dial out server and as a caching name
server (to keep it simple). You can also throw in a web proxy server.
Configure dialling out. Set up your ISP name servers as the forwarders for
this one.

2. Make this the name server, default gateway and proxy server for all
the other machines in the LAN. assign IP addresses to every machine
(maybe in the 192.168.*.* domain).

3. Test if the network is working properly. Ping all the machines, try
nslooking up the other machines in the LAN and so on.

4. Enable forwarding of IP packets and IP masquerading on the main server.

5. Dial out, and hey presto! you are sharing a modem among all the machines in
your LAN!!

Each of the above steps have respective HOWTOs. Refer to them, and if still
not clear how to go about it, post here (along with kernel and distro
versions).

Binand

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