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05 Apr

Sharing an Internet Connection from A Linux System using IPTables

To setup internet connection sharing in Linux system using IPTables

Enable IP forwarding

Run as root

sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

To enable it in system startup, edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and set

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

iptables

Run command as root

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
service iptables save

Configuration

The configuration should be like this

Router

Connected to the internet provider
IP : 192.168.1.1

Internet Connected System

eth0 (LAN Card 1)

Connected to router

  • IP : 192.168.1.10
  • Netmask : 255.255.255.0
  • Gateway : 192.168.1.1 (IP of the router)

eth1 (LAN Card 2)

Connected to the other system

  • IP : 192.168.0.20 (Not the same network as the first card)
  • Netmask : 255.255.255.0
  • Gateway : 192.168.1.1 (IP of the router)

Second System

LAN Card connected to the first system

  • IP : 192.168.0.30
  • Netmask : 255.255.255.0
  • Gateway : 192.168.0.20 (IP of the second Card in the first system)

Disclaimer

Linux networks is not a subject I am an expert on. So take my advice with a pinch of salt. The above procedure worked for me – so I am documenting it here so that I can reproduce it if I need it someday. YMMV.

This method can be used to share an internet connection from a Linux system(I used Fedora Core 6, but it should work on other distibutions that support iptables) to a Windows system. I used Windows XP.

Status

Some results of various commands are shown here. Check to see if it matches the result on your system.

# iptables -t nat -L POSTROUTING
Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
MASQUERADE  all  --  anywhere             anywhere

# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
1
# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

[tags]linux,network,internet,connection,sharing,iptables,cli,command,fedora[/tags]

09 Mar

Download Entire Folder using Wget Command in Linux

wget -m http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-Programming-HOWTO/

-m, –mirror
shortcut for -N -r -l inf –no-remove-listing.

wget -H -r --level=1 -k -p http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-Programming-HOWTO/

-r, –recursive
Specify recursive download.
-l, –level=NUMBER
Maximum recursion depth (inf or 0 for infinite).
-k, –convert-links
Make links in downloaded HTML point to local files.
-p, –page-requisites
Get all images, etc. needed to display HTML page.

Original Article
wget Manual