How do I share DSL from my YD Linux computer?

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Baer:

Thank you for responding to my question.

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 11:33  AM, Michael Baer wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:05, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
>>>> How can I share my DSL connection, using my Yellow Dog Linux 
>>>> machine (a Wallstreet PowerBook G3 Series) as a router?
>
> It's not to hard to do, especially if you have an extra machine (I 
> used an old 486 for quite a while for NAT/DHCP).

For my own hobbiest purposes, I might make my Wallstreet running YDL 
into the "extra machine," just for the learning experience (I assume I 
can still use the machine for desktop purposes while the NAT/DHCP is 
running in the background).

> A good place to start would be this HOWTO, it is a little outdated. 
> I'm not sure if it uses iptables for instance, but it should give a 
> good start:
>
> <http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Home-Network-mini-HOWTO.html>

I will look there. Thanks!!!

Best wishes,
Clint

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