Brief HOWTO: subnet with DHCP, DNS and forwarding

Xyne · 2012-12-16 00:07:16

I finally took some time today to learn how to set up a DHCP server for ad-hoc direct wired connections and ended up with DNS and subnet forwarding too. I have posted a summary along with a launcher script here.

I would be interested in feedback from users with more network configuration experience. Are there any glaring security holes or stupid mistakes in my setup? If not, I plan to add links to the relevant articles in the wiki as I would have liked more concrete examples when I was setting this up. I felt like I was just cobbling together bits and pieces from different sources and it took some trial and error to get forwarding working right with limited permissions.

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I already realize that I can tie it down further by specifying source ranges for incoming traffic from the wired subnet.

Last edited by Xyne (2012-12-16 00:08:49)

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#1 2012-12-16 00:07:16

Brief HOWTO: subnet with DHCP, DNS and forwarding

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