[LI] IP Masq, PCW

[pgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> Subject: [LI] IP masquearding ....is it possible this way?
> win 95) with W.X.Y.Z IP address and try to change the IP address to say 
> 192.168.0.X and change the gateway address to my Linux machine. After 
> rebooting will the datagrams of this WIn95 machine be routed thru my Linux 
> machine. Well it does not seem to be happening - the basic idea of doing it 
> am not sure. Pointers/suggestions please.

I suppose it is possible. We have two nets here : One pvt
(172.16.0.0) and another public class C net.
We use IP Masquerading with a PC having two 100Mbps cards and it
is pretty fast and works well.
Once I resolve the IP addresses, I can even forbid access to
certain sites as well.
There is a 'real life example' given in the ipchains docs. I took
it and modified it for my needs and it neetly filters unwanted
packets. It'd help if you are thorough with ipchains.

> Linux's future and so don't condemn about , PC-WORLD giving away a Linux
> distribution that you cannot install.Try to rectify the error.

I tried it. Made one debian installation and used dpkg to upgrade
some of the packages. MAIN works well but COREL does not. The
mistake must have been using a Win machine for creating the CD.
All directories seem to be of some WIn m/c. Major files are of
type data , instead of ar archive. Whereever they are of type ar
archive, it works. But then you need not do it, if you have
debian latest ( I used 2.0) . Finally I gave up and reverted to
RHL6.1 /PCQ. It must be the lack of time/interest to test an
installation before making the CD on PCW side. Let us forgive
them this time and hope they 'll do better next time and will
*NOT* shy away from Linux altogether.  But I should admit that it
*did* disappoint me.

--pgm
P G Mohanan , KREC Surathkal

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