New to Linux--Want my Fedora11 laptop act as a Gateway/Router for home local network

[akm5009]

Hi guys,

I am new to Linux and need your help in making my Fedora 11 laptop machine as a gateway/router for my home local network which can access internet through my laptop.

i want

My Wireless card is connected to internet directly and my my eth0 card is connected to switch and other PCs are connected to internet via switch thru my Linux machine.

i have read few tutorials on that on internet but i was not able to make it work on my laptop as i was not able to find or locate the .conf and script files to make changes.


guys please help... i need it urgently.


looking forward for your help.


thanks...
AJ

[PatMcLJr]

why not just buy a regular old router?

I have never done this and can offer chatter, so I chatter away,
if you have to, I think there is a check box in the NetworkManager to share your connection, then you have firewall issues and SELinux to consider.

Good Luck,
Pat Jr.

[EnglandA]

Not done this for a while, but like PatMcLJr said, if you disabled iptables and selinux (to prevent them getting in the way, you can figure out how to re-enable them later), you just need to setup ip forwarding (edit /etc/sysctl.conf and set: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1) and setting up the correct ip routing (man route).

[Dangermouse]

If i remember correctly (not always) but i think if you install firestarter, it has a option to bridge/share your connections.

[SlowJet]

yum install quagga squid
gugga will defsult to the old zebra router.
squid is a proxy server.
You can set up many cache items.
Make sure your laptop is a dns and dhcp sever to your local network.

May take some reading but will work because it is a real network, not windows connect share as described by the other posts.
The local machines can see each other and are protected by the gatway's firewall.

SJ