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#10 Re: Setting up a simple Debian gateway Posted by Anonymous (213.253.xx.xx) on Wed 14 Dec 2005 at 08:15 Um, what about setting up everything with a huge InstallShield Wizard ? I think Steve did a good job, he made this small howto easily understandable for newbies, yet a bit more detailed so newbies are able to think about, what's going on behind the scenes. With ipmasq and its 2-minutes "that's it!" idea, I won't even try to use Debian. Go for SuSe if you like complete pre-set packages which don't say much just do their work - either well or not. Newbies will never learn firewalling-networking-nating concepts with a 'just-use-it'-like ipmasq and that may not be the goal of howtos - for me especially never. They have to think, they have to 'suffer' a bit, not much, but this way they will be able to do something more complicated later by themselves. Self thinking -> Debian powa. Let the system control you -> SuSe, RedHat, Mandrake (omg) (although I really respect SuSe too, the best beginner linux I think)

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