If you have to do that, use winroute lite 4.1 I've never senn anything better on windows. http://www.winroute.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 1:38 AM Subject: [newbie] M$ machine as gateway instead of Linux > Hi all, > > I would love to connect my Linux box directly to the > Internet (56k dialup), and use it as a gateway to my wife's > Win98 laptop. But for some reason, her PCMCIA modem (also a > 56k) can connect at least 33% than my desktop machine can. I > can't stand the lower speed of my dialup, so I go through > the laptop. It's just not fair. > > Now if I were the gateway (in some other fantasy world of > rainbows and unicorns) I could set up the machines so that > she could access the Net as if she were connected directly > to it. Can the same be finagled in reverse? I'm currently > going through a proxy server on her machine, but I'd like to > set things up so my Linux box has a "direct" connection. Or > should I be consulting a Windows list? (Oh, please don't > make me do that! :-) > > Miark > > > >
