Where's Mugwump??? :)
MUGWump's here; I'm honored to have been missed. I've been looking at this thread and mostly trying to learn, as networking's not my forte. But after I saw your message, I put my thinking cap on (as I went back to bed) and may have some ideas that can at least be pointers.
Hi Mike.
I think Gregg's post talks about the clue that you're looking for. My one serious experience with networks was a short part-time gig in a small office whose network was based on LANtastic. All of the PCs (yes, that's all they had--no Macs) were running Win98SE, and shared a dial-up connection using "Internet Connection Sharing" (that's what ICS as Gregg referred to stands for). As Gregg said, it was first introduced in Win98SE, which may be why things aren't working for Terry aka "Obsolete" and why the limitation of the network is Win98se and higher.
ICS works fine accross two nics and there's no requirement place on the mac to use it. DHCP or static all works but you use your isp's dns and domain name, used it for a year with lots of macs, Wingates better
I suspect that there are some workarounds to enable a computer not running Win98SE (PC or Mac) to use it. I'm looking at an article on the M$ KnowledgeBase (KB234815) and it says that you only need one computer running Win98SE or higher to serve as the gateway; the other computers just need to have TCP-IP enabled client software. There are a number of links from the page, and you might find the help you need there. I found the article by searching on (quotes included) "Internet Connection Sharing", and this particular article showed up in the top right corner in a box marked "Related Links". The article itself lists "KB234815" as a keyword, so you could probably go there pretty quickly by typing that in the search box.
Yes thats about right, ICS is easy enough to setup on any computer following what I wrote above.
Terry, what kind of network are you trying to hook up to, anyway? An ISP network, an office network or what? Seems to me that unless you're trying to do something unapproved (as in the office network scenario) or your sysadmin has that arrogant "we don't support that" attitude, you should be able to at least get some technical information. If you have access to a Windows box there, you can get some info by right-clicking on "Network Neighborhood" from the desktop or (if you don't have that icon), going to Start-> Settings-> Control Panel-> Network and looking at the settings for the network protocols.
Winipcfg makes this easy enough without the temptation to make changes. :)
I know there's a Mac software package called DAVE which enables one
to use a Mac to connect to Windows-based networks, but I don't know
how far back in Macs and OS's it supports, even the old versions of
DAVE. When you say "Quadra", I'm presuming a 68K machine--am I
right? And what version of the Mac OS is it running? It'd at least
be worthwhile looking into. DAVE is produced by Thursby Software; a
Google search should turn 'em up easily enough.
Gamba's page is a good place to look for dave which is useful for file sharing but doesn't do much for web browsing, since there is a Netgear router thrown into the mix would it not be better to config the macs to suit the router or buy a hub and have the macs on a seperate plug from the router rather than fart around with ICS?
Well I'm sick of talking to myself, cheers
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