Gentoo as simple gateway/router. nothing funky. howto?

GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

I 've got a terribly unreliable old box with strung up 400 meg hard drives acting as my gateway and router, currently running FreeBSD.

This old thing is due for retirement ...

I have a gentoo box ready to go with a quad ethernet card.

I want it to simply forward packets between interfaces, and act as a gateway for stuff on my subnet.

Any howtos out there? Or is it as simple as it is in FreeBSD (enabling a single option) ?
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iamben · Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 278

gentoo.org howo, 2 nics only (1 internal 1 external):
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml

helpful iptables-only guide on forums.gentoo.org, 3 nics (2 internal, 1 external):
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=159133&highlight=iptables+howto+part

second one probably is more what you are looking for, but the first one has some info on extra stuff like dhcpd & a dns resolver