After lurking for several months on this interesting list and learning a lot in this
way, this is the first time in my life I actually try to post to any list. I hope I
did it right.
question:
Is IP-masquerading at all feasible in the case of dynamic allocation of the IP-address
by the ISP?
The IP-masquerading mini Howto (as published in "Doctor Linus" by Red Hat) seems to
assume a fixed IP-address on the side of the host that dials-up tot the ISP.
I have given my old 486 to my teenage daughter and - mainly to amuse myself - have
installed an Ethernet between the old 486 and the new Pentium computer. Both computers
run official Red Hat Linux version 5 (besides - oh horror - Windows 95) . The Pentium
computer has the modem. PPP dial-up under Linux works okay, be it that I have not yet
figured out where the files are - the PPP-Howto concerning Red Hat 4 does not seem to
be helpful for Red Hat 5 - so I am currently restricted to starting-up the ppp device
under X, by means of the Control Panel. The Ethernet network is okay too, I can telnet
between both hosts.
I would like it to be possible for the 486 to establish a www-session via the pentium.
Both hosts in this "network" have correct IP-numbers in the non-internet range
(172.16.x.x etc.). I believe virually all ISP's in Europe (mine is club-internet in
France) use dynamic allocation of IP-address. I wonder whether the 486 can masquerade
as the pentium, when I don't know the IP-address that is to be masqueraded beforehand.
If IP-masquerading is not feasible in this case, can anyone indicate other ways to
make use of the network to enable the 486 to use the resources of the pentium - or
indicate places to look for that kind of information.
Thanks, Adri
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