created on 28 Jun 2008, by Syndication, read more…
Linux is a perfect platform to act as a router/gateway.
In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up a Linux box to operate as a network router. The box will provide the following services:
DHCP server to provide the ip addresses to the machines in the LAN
DNS server to resolve domain names
Gateway with IP tables to give access to the Internet.
Firewall with IP tables.
The resulting machine will have quite a small footprint: about 600M, and except if your network is intensively used, a low spec computer can be recycled to do the job.
As the machine is going to operate as a router/firewall
