Re: Redhat 8.0 networking/routing/security issue...
From: chris (chris09_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/30/03
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Date: 30 Jul 2003 14:14:54 -0000 To: security-basics@securityfocus.com('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) In-Reply-To: <BAY7-F47cln3hCA1fIi00011ec4@hotmail.com>
Nokio,
Yes Comcast is full of it. I use the same ISP and the OS you use is
completely irrelevant. Every modern OS has a TCP/IP stack, if youve got an
OS that recognizes the NIC then you can get on the internet.
Your Redhat box can be used as a router, quite easily I might add. The RH
8.0 install even offers a choice to something of this effect. Like 'this
box is going to be a router' type thing. Networking is very complex, can
be confusing. Your going to have to setup NAT on this box as well. NAT
will allow the private IP addresses you assign the XP and other RH box to
use the IP address your ISP assigns your router box. (you might have to
read a bit on NAT and routing). You can use IP tables for this and just
create static routes for the IP address on your internal boxes. Securing
the box can be done with IPTABLES as well. http://www.netfilter.org/
My honest advice to you would be to buy a 40$ home DSL/CABLE router, its
much more secure and easier then securing a first time RedHat install
seeing as your a bit new to it.
Hope that helps even a little bit.
Chris
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>Hi, i'm not sure if this is the right mailing list to post to or not. But
>i'm sure I will soon find out...
>
>Anyway. I'm fairly new with Linux networking and i'm a little stumped. I
>have three boxes, none have OS's yet, but i'm planning on one having
Windows
>XP Pro, and the other two with Redhat 8.0. My plan is to have one of the
>Redhat boxes set up kind of as a router(?) so my two computers other
>computers could share the same internet. Is this possible? and if so how
>would I go about doing this? Also how would I go about securing the
redhat
>box for this kind of configuration? I have a cable modem with Comcast
@home
>internet. I'm not sure how to configure this under the Linux environment.
I
>have contacted Comcast but their support told me that I cannot use their
>internet service with Linux but I have heard from many other network
gurus
>that they are full of it and it is totally possible. Any help would be
much
>appreciated. Thanks in advance...
>
>Thanks,
>nokio
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