At 06:38 PM 2/27/00 +0100, Adam Skogman wrote:
> > > 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).
> >
> > 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.
>
>Wait a sec, if I do this, then the traffic from the linux to the windows
>machine still uses the bandwidth of the external net and is still
>unprotected (can be snooped). Or am I wrong?
>
>I want to be able to communicate between the two machines without this
>traffic leaking onto the external net.
Like you said, put a second nic in the linux box, and connect it to the
winblows box with a crossover ethernet cable.
