[CLUE-Tech] gateway: networking question

[Brandon N]

This varies per distribution, and to be honest I only know how to do it
manually. ( I write my own init scripts for this stuff, not much help
to anyone else.
First, what is your network topology?

machine1 ------- Linux box ------ external connection (DSL/modem)

If that is it, then you will need to enable IP forwarding on the Linux
box.
If it's just   machine1 ------ linux box  
you don't need a gateway (properly called default router)

Are both machines running Linux?

Brando

--- jason at matchingmoms.com wrote:
> I'm told that my gateway is invalid and that, because I've got only
> my Linux server and one other computer connected to a hub and haven't
> a router, that I can set my server to be the gateway.  Is this true? 
> If so, how do I set my server as my gateway?
> 
> I see I have an already-existing file:
> 
> root ~>cat /etc/gateways
> # /etc/gateways:
> #
> #<net | host> NAME1 gateway NAME2 metric VALUE <passive | active |
> external> 
> 
> friejas ~>route 
> Kernel IP routing table 
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref   
> Use Iface 
> 192.168.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0       
> 0 eth0 
> default         192.168.0.2     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0       
> 0 eth0
> 
> friejas ~>cat /etc/hostname 
> #/etc/hostname 
> jsf_host
> 
> friejas ~>cat /etc/hosts 
> #/etc/hosts127.0.0.1       localhost 
> #192.168.1.1    jsf_host        jsf_host 
> #192.168.0.200   server1 
> 192.168.0.200   jsf_host        jsf_host 
> 192.168.0.101   client1
> 


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