[ale] Cable Modem and IP Masquerade

[Keith Johnson]

Try http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ for info and the masquerading howto.

On a side note, in this area (nashville), we have had cable modems for a
while and if you don't really consider security you will, eventually, regret
it.  That was redundant, but the cable modem makes it sooner rather than
later.

-----Original Message-----
 From:	owner-ale at cc.gatech.edu [mailto:owner-ale at cc.gatech.edu] On Behalf Of
Jeffery Tillotson
Sent:	Wednesday, December 16, 1998 4:07 PM
To:	ale at cc.gatech.edu
Subject:	[ale] Cable Modem and IP Masquerade

I am lucky enough (or atleast I think) to have a cable access to the
Internet starting on Saturday.  With cable modem access I will be
getting one static IP and could get more at $25 a month.  Of course I
would rather just go with one and use IP Masquerading to give all other
PCs in my home access to them.  I currently have an network installed at
my house using the private network adresses.  In order to to masquerade
will I need to put a second NIc in my LINUX box (one for the LAN and the
other for the Cable static IP)?  I have read the IP-Masqurade mini HOWTO
and can't quite find a definitve answer.

Some specifics: I am running RedHat 5.0 with kernal 2.0.34.  The machine
currently has one NIC card at eth0 to talk with the LAN in the house.
The cable modem is COM21 brand ComPort 1000 modular cable modem.

Any help that I can recieve or suggestions on reading would be greatly
appreciated.

Jeff