Quick question for enabling NAT in LTSP (or edubuntu) - iptables details

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Patrick McKnight wrote:

> Attached is a simple bash script that carries out the procedures
> listed on enabling NAT on LTSP/Edubuntu servers.  I checked the script
> out fairly extensively but would love to get some feedback from the
> community on its overall utility.  

Sorry to be so slow coming back to you.  I'm rather busy just now.  I
haven't read the script in detail but I can certainly see why it would be
useful.  Nice work!

If you want to put a link to the script in the introduction on that wiki
page that might be useful.  Please make sure it's throughly tested though
before unleashing it on everyone.

> Despite the awesome instructions on the ThinClientHowtoNAT, I found NAT
> to be difficult to setup because each detail is important.  Perhaps I am
> not very good at following instructions to the letter - a conversation
> for another time.

I'm not sure if awesome might be overstating it, but hopefully what it does
is help people to understand the process a little as well as just type all
the right commands like a trained chimpanzee.  If you're program helps with
that and doesn't break other things that's great.

One thing I noted was that you had eth1 hard coded as your ltsp interface.
That's likely to be correct most of the time, but I'm not certain how often
you can assume.

Gavin