Geekiness

[azekeil]

I have spent today working from home. I've finally managed to set up my Linux box to do NAT. I believe traffic shaping only requires an update of the userland tools and that will be working as well, but for now we have DHCP and NAT working well :) FINALLY! It's only taken me 2 years to get it up.

The bad news is that currently the FTP server is unreachable. I'll look to open up a tunnel through to that machine for FTP and in the long term get the files moved over onto the linux box.

I haven't had any food today, or even a cup of tea, so I'm off to do that and relax for a while :)

Comments

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

It's only taken me 2 years to get it up.

It takes me less time than that.. all I seem to have to do is glance in your direction.. ;)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Ugh... you should be stoned. I'm so low on blood sugar that I didn't do the usual scanning for inanities first. More fool me :p

[diffrentcolours]

This is one place where BSD is so much better than Linux.

Just stick the line nat_enable="YES" in your rc.conf and reboot. Job done.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Ah, but can it do traffic shaping too? I expect so, but I think I was aiming for the best all-rounder operating system. Ack, still, I'm chuffed.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Actually I think it's a lot easier now with the 2.4 kernel because iptables (successor to ipchains) can talk to iproute2 which is the new traffic shaping and whatnot thing.