Re: sharing internet between WINDOZE and LINUX
Hi,
I also used Linux as gateway/firewall/masq server to DSL and
now use Linux with Cable. I recommend this approach over using
Windows on technical bases. But Cameron may have some other
political issues with this approach in his family.
I know if you buy home LAN kit with 100baseT switching hub/NIC cards
combination such as Liksys for little over $100, it came with Windows
masq utility which I dumped to garbage. Linksys are Linux compatible.
You may think this path.
Make sure to buy switch not simple hub.
Just do not buy windows masq software, it is waiste.
Osamu
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 08:40:30PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> 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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