On Tue, 25 May 1999, Rod Upfold wrote:
> Let say...you have a home network system...linux..Win95 - going to a Linux
> server. Each network card has it's own IP address. So the internal network
> is up and running. A modem works in the server and you phone the
> provider...to get on the internet they give you an address. (geeeish...I
> hoped I explained that right....forgive nme if it isn't)
>
>
> My question: Does the IP addresses that you have on your home network
> interfere with the providers IP address that they have given you while
> going to the internet through them....if it does...is there a way around
> it?
>
IF you set things up right, your internal IP addresses shouldn't matter. You
have to turn on IP Masquerading (which I don't know how to do yet <G>) and have
your dial-up machine pretend to be doing all the internet functions which are
really coming from your other machines.
Or you can just cheat and do what I'm doing and get an ISDN line and an ISDN
router (such as a Netgear) and let IT handle all that.... The way the Netgear
(and most other LAN-based ISDN routers) work is that they are assigned an IP
address on dial-up or are given a static IP. They in turn act as a gateway
between the local LAN and the internet. That's probably the easiest way to go.
:-)
