Just a few thoughts... Why in the world would you want to depend on windows to handle your internet sharing? If you setup your linux machine to share the modem, you will get a lot more bang for your buck... setup your linux box to do dial-on-demand and use squid. You won't have to wait for DNS lookups (it will cache them after the first lookup), or for graphics downloads (also cached), etc. If you go to the same sites very often, you'll notice a significant speed increase over standard modem surfing. And let's not forget about firewalls... or the reliability of linux compared to windows.
- James ----Original Message Follows---- From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [rl-users] internet connection sharing Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:27:38 -0500 Tracey wrote: >does anyone know why my modem insists on dialing out every time I click >on something on my RL descktop? > >RL shares internet via my Winme box. >Tracey > What type of proxy are you using? I recommend Winproxy. It will dial out to get the initial connection and then continue on from there. The idea is that the Win box could be headless so you'd not need to do anything but fire up your browers and start surfing. -- irc: irc.openprojects.net, channel #sapphirewm, nick sunstorm icq: 7205161 homepage: http://europa.freeshell.org code: http://sapphire.sourceforge.net - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/ _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/
