Sharing internet between Gentoo and WinME

[kallius]

I'm trying to share my internet conection between a Gentoo desktop and a WinMe laptop, I have been trying to configure it using iptables and dhcpd folowing other posts in the forums to no result.

My configuration: Internet (from my cable modem) comes into eth0( configured as dhcp) , eth1 ( inet addr 192.168.0.1 Bcast 192.168.0.255 mask: 255.255.255.0) connects directly to my laptop.



As far as I know I'm supposed to have a dhcp server on eth1 and have ip do forwarding.


Thanks in advance.

[kpack]

You don't need a dhcp server on eth1, especially not for a direct connection. Just configure your laptop with a static address on 192.168.0, ie 192.168.0.2.

# Masquerade out eth0
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

That's pretty much it.

Add the following rules to enable stateful packet filtering on the internet interface:

# Disallow NEW and INVALID incoming or forwarded packets from eth0.
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state NEW,INVALID -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state NEW,INVALID -j DROP