Bridge two networks, panther 10.3 -help please

[kingpuck]

Hi,

I would just like to say before I start I have sort of jumped in at the deep end, until two days ago I had never touched a mac.

I have two networks running, the first has a G5 with OS X server 10.3 installed, it is running DNS and DHCP, my ethernet card en0 is connected to this network.

192.168.0.x
255.255.255.0

The G5 is connected to the second network using the second ethernet card en1. This is on a different subnet mask and ip range.

10.82.0.1
255.255.248.0

Up to this point everything is working fine, but what I need to do is have the G5 bridge the two networks so that I can then allow the iMacs and eMacs on en0 network to have access to the web proxy server on the en1 network. I have read that this is possible in 10.4 by just using nat and ip forwarding only, but unfortunatley this option is not available in 10.3.

The other question I had was this. At the moment I have manually set the en1 interface (the external) its ip, subnet and the ip of the router. How do I inform the clients of the router on the other subnet or do I even need to do this. At the moment I just have the G5 as the DNS server for the clients, can I just enter the other DNS servers in the DHCP settings to resolve the internet address’

any help would be appreciated.

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