Linux/Windows Network Question

[20_MuleTeam_Borax]

I setup a network between my linux box and windows box. They can both ping each other w/o a problem. In windows, i setup the linux box as the gateway. IP forwarding is enabled on the linux box. I am running these IPchains commands at startup.

ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ
ipchains -P forward DENY

Why can't my windows box access the internet? I have tried setting the windows box's DNS server as both the linux box and my ISP's DNS server

Any ideas?

 

[andri]

you didn't supply destination IP address.
The correct syntax would be:

ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -j MASQ

(read: all traffic coming from 192.168.1.0/24 subnet going to anywhere is to be masqueraded).

 

[20_MuleTeam_Borax]

I tried issuing that command, but I am still unsuccessful. Nothign should have to be restarted for those changes to take effect, right?

 

[andri]

If you restart you reset your settings too 🙂 A UNIX box needs to be rebooted for only two things - additional hardware or a kernel upgrade. That's it. If you boot more it shows that you do not know what you are doing (read: remnants from bulldoze).

OMFG... forgot the echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward command...

 

[20_MuleTeam_Borax]

I knew i didn't have to restart the machine. I was askign if any network services need to be restarted.

Have any other ideas why this isnt working?