FC6 as router/firewall/webserver/gateway, how?

[corekernel]

Hi!

I got an old P4 pc with 2 NIC's so I planned to setup FC6 as router/firewall/webserver/gateway server for my home networking. Currently my home network connect to the internet via TP-LINK router and I can't find good tutorials on the net focused on linux router...what I got just a tutorial for installing linux etc. I already installed fedora & just waiting to configure it.

My eth0 connect to the internet via dhcp & I set eth1 with 192.168.0.1. Can anyone show me the example how to configure it next.

p/s; I'm not talking about router/firewall distro.

Thanks.

[Brian1]

This is what I do. You have eth0 setup. On eth1 make sure to only set the IP and netmask. Do not set a gateway on eth1.

Now goto http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/gen/ and answer the questions it ask to setup a firewall/router gateway. This generates a script that is displayed in the browser. Cut and paste the text of the script shown and save to a file called firewall.sh. Put the file in /etc. Set the script to have the execute attribute. ' /sbin/shmod + /etc/firewall.sh '.

Turn off current Fedora Firewall and disable it from boot.
/sbin/service iptables stop
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 iptables off

Now goto /etc and run the script likethis' ./firewall.sh '. Got a lan machine and test internet. Then goto say http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe/ and test for open ports. This can be done from any machine on the network.

Thats it. Done a few this way for years.
Brian

[corekernel]

Thanks Brian1..

And how do I manage the router?What I mean is for consumer router i.e D-link,aztech etc, they have web based manager to control the PC's in the local network. So do I need to install any 3rd party softwares??

[Brian1]

You can use one of many firewall tools like shorewall fwbuilder and a number of others. Just search google for these. I don't use them myself. Kind of got a grasp of using iptables from the command line.

Brian