[plug] Questions about a dialup server

[Michael Hunt]

Thanks for all the help. I seem to have gotten squid working fine now. I
just use our squid proxy at the ISP I work for as a parent, set the firewall
option to my local domain/IP addresses and stopped it from going directly to
the source for cgi or ? type URL's.
 As far as diald goes I went to the main diald website (hadn't read your
post then) and downloaded a new copy of the source and also some patches
(its up to .5 now) that made it compile properly on a red hat box. The
install worked like a charm (no errors in comparison to all the ones I got
before) I just now need to do is create the diald.conf file. I suppose the
rpm configs have dependencies on the diald package. Oh well having to do it
by hand will be a learning experience.
I have had a look at the files you sent me, and while I might need to make
some changes for my exact configuration they have given me a giant leap
forward in my understanding of firewalling, filtering etc, so again thanks
for all the help

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Ian Kent
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 4:25 PM
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: RE: [plug] Questions about a dialup server
>
>
> At 11:34 AM 08-02-99 +0800, Michael Hunt wrote something like:
>
> snip ...
>
> >
> >Which version of diald did you use. I downloaded one (gcc or libc I cant
> >remember) and it came up with all sorts of compile errors.
> >
>
> My setup is for my RH systems. It has worked for me on 5.1 and 5.2.
>
> rpm -qa|grep diald gives:
>
> diald-0.16-3
> diald-config-unmetered-0.2-2
> diald-config-1.2.1-1
>
> All three can be found at http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/
> You need to install diald-0.16 first then diald-config-unmetered-0.2 and
> finally diald-config-1.2.1. This gives you all the config for a
> ppp0 setup.
> You need to read the docs to fine tune it and work out how to add
> additional ppp configs.
>
> >
> >On another note how does one set-up IP-Masquerading. I followed the
> >instructions in the mini howto, compiled my Kernel add the appropriates
> >lines to the rc files and it doesn't work. I also noticed the IP
> forwarding
> >comes up as being off on bootup. Is this supposed to be right
> (doesn't make
> >sense to me). If not how am I supposed to turn it on/get IP Masquerading
> >working. Anyone's experience with setting this up on a RedHat
> 5.2 box from
> >scratch would be helpful (step by step would be great).
> >
>
> Attached are three files:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipfw (linked to by approiate Sys V startup directories)
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.local
> /etc/ppp/ip-down.local
>
> Again this is RH setup, but should provide an example of filtering (if you
> want to do that). I am not sugesting that it is a good setup or that it is
> bullet proof by anymeans. It was written with the aim of stopping most
> incoming services and is used in combination with the TCP wrappers.
>
> >Thanks in advance.
> >Michael Hunt
>