Ok, I'll chime in on this one. Internet connections sharing using a Win9x machine as
a gateway to
serve an internet connection to your linux box isn't that difficult at all. I did it
by accident and
it took me several hours to get rid of it. Here is how I accidentally did it.
First, I had a 4 computer peer-to-peer lan of Win9x and WinME boxes. One of the Win98
boxes provided
internet connection sharing to the others. I built a linux box to finally act as a
real file server,
etc.. I loaded Mandrake 7.2 custom/server install. I fired the linux box up cranked up
Netscape to
read some HOW-TOs and bingo, I had the live Netscape homepage staring me in my face.
(I also heard the
modem on the Win98 box dial out)
Snooping around, I found Mandrake had set the gateway IP address to the IP address of
the Win98 box
that was providing internet connection sharing. Everything worked great except I
don't think the
Win98 box would disconnect the dial-up connection when idle anymore.
Long and short of it is, if your want to serve an internet connection from your
Windows box to you
Linux box, just set up internet connection sharing on your windows box and tell you
Linux box that the
gateway IP is the IP for the windows box offering the connection.
No guarantees that this will work exactly as explained. Remember, I didn't do this on
purpose. I
simply plugged my Linux box into my lan and to my great suprise was able to surf
through on of my
Win98 boxes - go figure?
John Wolford wrote:
> There's a good chance that Windows won't share except with Windows (you know, like
>you couldn't
> connect to msn.com w/ Netscape, that kind of thing).
>
> As for your setup, it's a little unclear to me - it seems like maybe you have only
>one NIC in your
> Windows box, that means that you are connecting the internet, your linux box and
>your Windows box
> through a hub? But then why would your Windows box have an ip of 192.168.x.x, so you
>must have 2
> NICs in the Windows box.
>
> The other day a friend and i had to set up ICS on win98SE for another Windows box
>and even that
> was a hassle. We tried like 3 or 4 different things and finally we uninstalled ICS
>and reinstalled
> it and tried the first thing and it worked. We didn't even check to find out what
>was happening,
> we just walked away.......
>
> Windows *should* just MASQ it like Linux does, but who knows. But in that case
>you'll need to
> specify the IPS's DNS servers........man, just thinking about it makes me shudder.
>Don't forget to
> do a lot of rebooting (with your Windows machine), that REALLY seems to help. And
>also reinstall
> ICS a few times for your different circumstances. Too bad the documentation in Win98
>is such crap.
>
> Sorry i don't have a better (non-bitter) attitude towards the whole thing. I'm one
>of those guys
> who dumped Windows with a vengance. I know i'd be a happier person if i could find
>my way to
> forgive the Bill Gates and maybe someday i will. Actually i used Win2KPro for quite
>some time
> before i left and that's a lot better than 98 - if you must use Windows and you
>don't care so much
> about games then load up 2k. Good luck....
>
> John
>
> PS. At one point we had the box serving the internet but it couldn't browse the net
>itself....98
> really sucks.
>
> --- Martin Cleaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The problem is that i don't want to share the internet connection from the
> > > linux box but from the Windows box...
> >
> >
> > Now that is a problem! ;-)
> >
> > >, so answering the questions in internet
> > > connection sharing under linux would mean that i want to share from my
> > linux
> > > box. What i want to know is what to configure under linux so that it can
> > > pick up the internet signal from my windows box...
> >
> > The best answer is probably: don't... Linux is much better at sharing an
> > internet connection that Windows, and even better would be a router like
> > Linksys (about 200 dollars)...
> >
> > Rgds
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
>
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