[Gllug] Help with setting up a Router

[Wolfgang Draskovic]

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Hi

> All you need to do is set up the box with appropriate addresses on each
> NIC (and implicit routes) and then a default route pointing out through
> the outer interface (you'll need to know what the next machine in the
> chain of steps to the outside world is).

I don't think it's necessary to know the next hop. The routingtable just 
holds the local interface

> You then just enable forwarding, either with:
>
>     echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding
>
> or by taking the appropriate option in RH's graphical network
> configurator.

Are your local ips known to the world? Perhaps you'll need nat and/or a 
proxy. No firewall? You better think this over again.

Greetings Wolfgang

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