On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Adam Skogman wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a question on a higher level, not so much about mandrake in particular. Sorry
>if it is too "newbie".
>
> I want to build a little network in my apartment, and I would like some pointers as
>to how.
>
> NOW:
> I have two computers, going on three.
>
> 1) A windows/mandrake workstation, OC:d, so I don't want this to run all the time
> 2) A linux server, rather old and slow, but fully capable of SSH and serving files
> 3) An old compaq (486/33) with should be a terminal.
>
> I'm on a 10Mbit student housing network, and this is rather choked(tm). I have two
>IPs, so communication over this using my hub is possible, albeit slow. I'd like some
>extra bandwidth of my own, since I want to use the fileserver for my windows files
>and I want to tunnel some communication over ssh without doubling my load on the
>external network.
>
> I WANT:
> 1) The linux server to be the gate to the external net, posing as
>web/ftp/file/ssh-server.
> 2) The windows machine to be able to use ICQ etc. with it's own IP.
>
> How do I do this? I probably need another NIC, but that's ok. But will the passing
>of traffic through the linux machine pose any problems, like ICQ not beeing able to
>connect (I've seen this happen when behind firewalls).
>
> /Adam Skogman
Without buying more equipment about the best you can do is change the
gateway of the windows box to the linux box and set the linuxbox to
forward for it. Now your windows machine will send everything direct to
the linux machine instead of haveing to go thru the schools routers. Or if
you can comeup with 100$ buy on of those lan kits and your all set with a
private lan between the machines.
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