routing

[Jason_Kushmaul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jason Kushmaul)]

Hello all,


My friends and I are trying to set up one of our boxes in our play lan to
be a router and I want to learn how to set my linux box up as the router,
rather than their Win95/98/nt boxes. <I'm greedy like that>
we are using a v. 90 56k dial up connection with one account.
We have reserved IP's for our lan, all set up on the other end (having
friends in higher places is great:)  I know that this is called IP packet
forwarding... thats it. heh.
we are going to be using the linux box as the router, and win 95/98/nt
boxes will be using the internet through it...

some questions also.  What is the difference between IP masquerading, and
IP packet forwarding?
are they the same?  apples and oranges?

any helpful explanations?  need more info?


Thanks

Jason

        they dedicate their lives
        to running all of his
        he tries to please them all
        this bitter man he is
        throughout his life the same
        he's battled constantly
        this fight he cannot win
        a tired man they see no longer cares
        the old man then prepares
        to die regretfully
        that old man here is me