[plug] Small networking problem

[Leon Brooks]

On Sunday 17 March 2002 19:31, Craig Dyke wrote:
> Short while back I had a friend help me set up a small network at home.
> We made so when my Linux box dials in that my Win-98 box has internet
> access. I remember this involved ip-up invoking my ip-up.local file.

> 1. What calls ip-up to get the ball rolling?

pppd. See the man page for it. Is the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local file marked 
executable?

> 2. A side problem is that ipchains module doesn't seem to get called
> either?

I use Monmotha (one size fits all, requires 2.4 kernel because it uses 
iptables) at startup, generally by invoking it from /etc/rc.d/rc.local and 
tell it to masquerade everything from the LAN regardless.

Cheers; Leon