Networking :: dsl gateway

Hi

I just downloaded and tried dsl - great work

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No I had the idea to use dsl as a simple gateway (without firewall etc), but ip forwarding isn't turned on and everthing is readonly. Is there a way to do it (without harddisk-install)? Has anybody done that before?

Regards - Morchel

There was a project that do a simple gataeway on a floppy,
based on linux
It's called LRP (Linux Router Project), try this link
LRP

I finally had some time to get it working with dsl 0.8.1.1.

I wrote a script which configures ip-forwarding using iptables and sets the routing for my intranet. I put that script in /usr/sbin and added the name to my filetool.lst:

#!/bin/sh
# second (internal) network-device
ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 up > /dev/null

# set routing for internal network
route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1 eth1 > /dev/nu l

# firewall ruleset
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall-2.4

# change hostname
hostname gate > /dev/null

I made myself an iso with iptables in the root directory so when dsl starts up its already included. Thanks a lot to gui for providing the iptables.dsl.

I made a /etc/rc.d directory and put in the firewall-script (rc.firewall-2.4) which I got from the Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO. http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/firewall-examples.html. I just had to change the location of iptables and adapt the net-settings to my personal ones. It's just a test-script but at the moment it works perfectly for me.

Is /etc/rc.d a proper directory for that kind of scripts?

Ideas, thoughts, improvements, criticism, any reaction is welcome

Regards Morchel

original here.