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From: "Wood Brent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Internet connection sharing...
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm wondering if i could do the following. I >have
> 2 computer in a lan. 1 is in windows98 and has >Sygate
> home network 4.0 installed. I use it to share
> >my internet connection between the 2 computer. Would
> >it be possible, in linux, to share the same
> connection >with or without using sygate or in any
> other way?
> >
>
> Yes, & I believe Mandrake 7.2 is the easiest one to do
> it with. Once you have set up Mandrake to either use a
> cable modem or dialup for internet connection, just
> work through the internet connection sharing menu in
> DrakeConf. Tell your Windows box to use DHCP to get
> it's IP address & that's about it.
>
> Id does all the ipchains config etc to manage the
> routing, without your having to learn how do set
> anything up manually. (Note, if you upgrade to kernel
> 2.4, this breaks coz it uses iptables, not ipchains,
> otherwise, it works well, at least it did on this box)
The problem is that i'm not sharing the inet connection from the linux box,
but from the windows box. The windows box uses a winmodem that i can't
install on the linux box. Is it possible from the windows box to share a
connection between linux and windows using sygate or not?
