> Box 1
> 192.168.0.1
> Being as how neither the telephone company nor cable company have
> penetrated this far into the woods with newer technology yet, I am
> still using dial up, so this box has ppp0 as it's external interface
> and eth0 as it's internal interface. It serves as my gateway/firewall,
> as well as serving DHCP/DNS. I've been reading several articles about
> DHCP and iptables, and have it worked out and going, as well as the
> gateway, but I'm not too sure if my firewall is setup quite right, and
> I know I have nothing done as of yet with DNS. I think I want a simple
> caching DNS server, but I do want the ability to assign the 3 servers I
> want to run names.


If you want to keep it simple, and make things a whole lot easier on
yourself as far as setting up a firewall, consider using Freesco on that
box. Freesco is a single floppy router with PPP, DHCP and DNS built in,
and has a TON of other packages availble to make it even more useful. Best
of all, it's based on Slackware! http://www.freesco.org