 | | | Adding an other ethernet card to my linux box | Adding an other ethernet card to my linux box 2003-06-18 - By Keith Mastin
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> Hi gurus,
>
> I have a rather newbie query. Sorry I have never tried this before. I
> would like to configure my RH7.2 box to route between 2 interfaces. This
> will obviously mean that I have to install a new ethernet card and
> basically configure linux to install this new card and switch on routing
> between them. Can you give me any hints or starting points?
You should start with a little bit of homework, so the next set of
questions will have some meat on them. :)
Do google searches for the networking3-howto and the ethernet-howto for
starters. Then you will either be looking at ipchains or iptables for the
firewall. I'de suggest iptables, as it's the most recent and has a ton of
features not found in ipchains. Google for the netfilter-howto to get
started. There are also some little gui thingies out there to help you
configure your firewall, but I dunno anything about them (command line
user myself).
I've heard some good things about smoothwall, so it might be worth taking
a look at.
HTH,
Good luck
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Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696 6070
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