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Re: sharing internet between WINDOZE and LINUX



On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 07:19:38PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> My family's crappy windows computer has this beautiful DSL connection, which I have lusted after for many months.  Anyway,
> I can't steal the modem or anything, so I was wondering, is their a way to share a window's internet with a linux box?

Internal or external dsl modem?  If it's external, set up the linux
box as a masquerading firewall (explain the benefits of a firewall) or
find a shitty box to do the job.  Here I have a 486/66 w/32MN ram
doing ipmasq, dhcp for internal network, etc. off a cable modem.

If it's internal then you're hosed unless you want to run windows
routing :)  NT and 2000 can route out of the box (tho I don't think
they can do masq out of the box).  There are some utilities out there
to do ipmasq with a windows box.  I personally would not do this.

Cheers,

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