Router help request.sdm

[Ben Beeson]

Aloha all again,

	I apologize for all the traffic am posting that is asking for help, but 
routing on networks ain't me (yet...).  I've got the idea down, it's the 
actual typing at the shell prompt that is killing me.  Exactly how do I 
tell the router box that the box should route packets destined for the 
world; i.e. not 192.168.x.x addresses through eth0?  I know I need a 
default route to do this, but the syntax of the route command doesn't 
allow me say something like, "Hey, I know eth0 is configured via dhcp, 
but do it anyway..." The route command wants an IP address there instead 
of a device name, and if I hard code the IP address and then get 
renumbered subsequently, I'm toast....  If I were to start from scratch, 
what should I type on the router's command line to get it to route?  (I'm 
running RH 7.2.)

Many Thanks in advance,

Ben 



>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 12/31/01, 8:16:50 AM, MonMotha <monmotha at indy.rr.com> wrote regarding 
[luau] Re:Router help request.sdm:


> What you need to do is configure the router exactly as you would if it
> were a normal client using the settings given to you by your ISP (this
> is probably DHCP for a cable modem/non-PPPoE DSL), then set up ip
> masquerading on it.  On the clients behind your router (the ones to be
> masqueraded and won't have a public IP), assign them an IP in the range
> you told your router to masquerade, and set your router as their default
> gateway.  These internal clients need not know a thing about the outside
> world other than that they can get there through your router.

> --MonMotha