[TriLUG] Routing/router questions from a network wannabe :-)

[Kevin Flanagan]

There's also the Small Business server route, www.clarkconnect.org will 
provide much more than a router/firewall, mail, file services, web 
server, etc.  Depends on your need.

J.C. Jones wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have a Verizon Broadband card ( EVDO ) that works great with Ubuntu, 
> Red Hat 9.0, and Fedora Core 5 on my laptop. I would like to create a 
> system within my laptop that would hook to the internet through the EVDO 
> card ( in the pc/pcmcia card slot on my laptop ) and use a usb- ethernet 
> adapter to provide a internet connection to other users within a small 
> network.
> 
> Since these are two different networks (usb-ethernet is 192.168.x.x. 
> where EVDO is dynamically assigned IP address from verizon ) and 
> different types of adapters ( usb-ethernet is eth0 and the EVDO card is 
> ppp0 ) ,  I don't know how to pass traffice from one adapter to the other.
> 
> Can someone point me to a plain and SIMPLE instruction set or howto that 
> would enlighten me on  what to do?? I am not sure whether I should be 
> working with the route tables, iptables, a combination of the two --- Or 
> something totally different.
> 
> I would prefer using Fedora Core 5 for this project, but if it is easier 
> to accomplish with something different, I am game.
> 
> Thanks for your input.
> 
> jcj
>