2007.2 issues

[Michael Lauer]

Michael Lauer wrote:
> D. R. Newman wrote:
>> Have you managed to get the 'phone gatewayed through your computer to
>> the build site? (When usb0 comes up on my PC, eth0 stops working, and I
>> cannot get Mandriva to set up network translation between the Internet
>> and static local IP addresses, it assumes they use DHCP. It does not use
>> the same scripts as Redhat.)

> I'm using Mandriva with the following script here:

> mickey at allanon:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup.d$ cat autoforward
> #!/bin/sh

> if [ -r /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$1 ]; then
>     . /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$1

>     if [ "$1" == "usb0" ]; then
>         echo enabling NAT on $1
>         iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.0/24
>         echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>         iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
>     fi
> fi

Here is the corresponding configuration for Mandriva:

mickey at allanon:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts$ cat ifcfg-usb0
DEVICE=usb0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.0.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=no
METRIC=20
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
USERCTL=yes
RESOLV_MODS=no
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6TO4INIT=no

Regards,

:M:
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