Networking : how to bridge two NICs to share internet access ?

Michael J. Lynch mlynch at gcom.com
Wed Aug 24 19:14:33 UTC 2005


Matt Patterson wrote:
> I havent done this since the days of the 2.2 kernel and ipchains, but on 
> old debian systems you installed a package called ipmasq. There was 
> basically no configuration neeeded and it worked very well, used it for 
> many years on a server box.
> 
> Good luck,

Don't go down that road.  It's much easier than that.  Just us iptables
to set up a NAT (A.K.A  IP Masquerade) server.  Google for linux NAT and
you should find lots of Howto's.

-- 
Michael J. Lynch

What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown





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