<div>"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." </div> <div> </div> <div> - A. Einstein<BR><BR><B><I>moi <rainer@lucien.sysadmin.at></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Les Mikesell schrieb:<BR>> moi wrote:<BR>>> The difference is simple: Anyone can give advice such as "write <BR>>> yourself a firewall and routing script" or "try it with webmin" - you <BR>>> can only hope he has access to those.<BR>>><BR>>> You "understood" he has a fully configured network and a server with <BR>>> at least two Ethernet Cards, able to do the forwarding/NAT. If *any* <BR>>> of those assumptions is wrong, he may end up with a misconfigured <BR>>> network and NO internet access. how cool.<BR>><BR>> And how would
that be worse than the popular OS that has a checkbox <BR>> for internet sharing - which only works when you have a suitable <BR>> network topology? Microsoft does it like this: <BR>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126 in case you are confused about <BR>> the term.<BR>><BR>At least microsoft does install DHCP and leaves no doubt any other <BR>method is not supported. period. How many sites have you seen with <BR>Internet connection sharing via XP, how many persons you know use the <BR>in-built VPN concentrator function ?<BR><BR>Another hint: HP-UX has ip_forwarding enabled by default. One only needs <BR>to configure a strict set of firewall Rules and/or enable NAT (if needed).<BR><BR>So, please stop being rude and comparing with *whatsoever*.<BR><BR>bye<BR><BR>-- <BR>fedora-list mailing list<BR>fedora-list@redhat.com<BR>To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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