Share internet from Mandrake 10 to windows 3440

Do what? If you want your mandrake machine to act as a NATing gateway for a private net to another net, you want to click on the option in its control panel that sets it up that way.

That click will

a) tell the mandrake machine to forward packets to all interfaces (you can echo 1 to the right variable inproc yourself)

b) tell the mandrake machine to do NAT on your internet-ward connection (that's an iptables forwarding command, you can liewise do it yourself).

If you instead want your machine to act as a bridge between two internal networks on two different interfaces, with two different nets addresses and masks, well that's crazy. You want to route instead, and that requires no special setup.

If you want to give two (or more) different IP addresses to the same NIC so that several different nets will share the same physical wiring, well again that's no problem. Just do it, using the usual ifconfig commands on eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. (the different alias devices). I imagine there is something to click in your control panel too.

But I am afraid your descripton lost me totally - please describe what you want to do without talking about MS windows please. It's not an example.

Peter