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|-----Original Message-----
|From: James Little [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 5:41 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: [newbie] Internet Server Question(Maybe)?
|
|
|Here's the deal. I have a DSL connection that all the computers on my LAN
|share. We have an extra phone line that noone calls cause it used
|to be our
|dial-up internet connection. My brother is cheap and doesn't want to pay
|for his own internet acount, so here's what we did in windows 2000. His
|modem dials mine and we get a pretty good connection(44K or better). When
|you open network neighborhood it looks like his machine is just another
|computer on my network, so it gives him internet, file, and printer access
|just like the rest of us. Granted it is slower, but his
|connection is just
|as functional as anyone elses hanging directly on the network. The DSL
|modem is on it's own port on the network and has it's own IP. To
|connect to
|the net I just set everyone's machine up to use the DSL's IP as a gateway
|and it has worked beautifully.
|How do I set up Linux on my machine to answer the phone when it rings and
|allow him access to the network? I have kept the IP the same for all the
|OS's I boot to for ease of use, and have tried to simplify
|everything. Do I
|just set the machine up as an internet server, or what? Do I use IP
|forwarding? When I set him up as a user, does he need to be a PPP
|user or a
|general user? Since it is a local call, alot of the time we'll
|just connect
|and leave it connected for days, but since I've moved primarily to
|Linux it
|renders my machine boring to me when he wants to go onto the web. Maybe I
|just have my head up my but, but I'm totally lost here. I know it
|would be
|easier if I had a another machine set up that I could dedicate to
|this and a
|couple of other small tasks, but I'm still in the works on that,
|and I need
|a temporary fix. Any help would be appreciated.
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