Networking, Linux

How to change the computer name?

1. Open and edit /etc/hosts

[IP] name

2. open and edit: /etc/sysconfig/network,
in debian should be: /etc/hostname

HOSTNAME="name"

3. Execute:

hostname name

4. Restart and check with the following command:
uname -a

Share your internet connection

1. Execute
modprobe iptable_nat iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.5/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

2. Execute
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward