Firefox as local app and networking

[Mickey Moore]

I have had a similiar problem when I had to plug a Windows computer into the same switch as the LTSP's are attached. I believe you need to edit /etc/sysctl.conf and uncomment as follows:


# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

This will allow the terminal server to act as a router for machines behind the terminal servers NIC. You will also need a static route entry in your internet connected router (I assume 192.168.1.1) to route packets for 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.1.25. 



--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Firefox as local app and networking
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 5:11 AM
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, M Rathburn wrote:
> 
> > Edubuntu 8.10 amd64
> > 
> > I want to try to run Firefox as a local app on thin
> clients to see if things
> > can be sped up (right clicks, listboxes, etc.).  I
> have everything set up,
> > unfortunately the thin client running Firefox locally
> cannot see the
> > internet.  Here's my config:
> > 
> > eth0 - on my local network where our internet is
> (192.168.1.25, gw
> > 192.168.1.1).
> > eth1 - is the thin client network with scheme
> 192.168.0.254 (server).
> 
> The simplest way is probably to run a proxy server like
> squid on the ltsp
> server, but that will only solve http and ftp.  You might
> want realplayer
> or something later, so NAT is probably the best approach
> and also will use
> less resources on the server:
> 
> https://wiki.edubuntu.org/ThinClientHowtoNAT
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
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