Windoze does have parallel port networking, but according to the PLIP
How-To know one has ever successfully connected a windows machine with a
linux machine this way.
Adam Rogoyski wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, April Escamilla wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone,
>
> > I have 2 laptops -- one running win95 with UT connect (dial-up
> >via modem) and a redhat 5.2 laptop. I am curious on how to set up my
> >linux laptop with UT connect, or whatever dial-up service I can use with
> >a modem and a linux box. Really though, I am more interested in setting
> >up my Linux box to use IP masquerading off of my win95 machine dial-up
> >(mostly out of curiosity). Has anyone done this? Does anyone have any
> >info about this? Can I do it with 2 modems, or will I need an ethernet
> >PCMCIA card for the linux box to masquerade off of my win95 system.
>
> I'm not too sure if win95 can do nat or masquerading or anything like
> that. Usually, people connect with Linux or their favorite BSD and then
> let windows and the other machines go through their unix machine.
> You need to have some type of physical local network with your machines,
> so they'd both need network adapters. (You could use a parallel port
> connection but I don't know if windows supports it this way). Then setup
> the local network, with the gateway as the masquerading machine. It's
> really easy once you've done it and know what to do. You might want to
> read the Masquerdaing HOWTO, as well as the Ipfwadm and ipchains howto's
> as well. try http://www.linux-howto.com
>
> > This and any info about dialing into UT with a linux system
> >would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
>
> Hmm. Here is what I do to connect to telesys (I'm using debian 2.2 but
> it's probably similiar with redhat). I run ppp-ut to connect. This is a
> scripts that looks like this
>
> #! /bin/sh
> /usr/sbin/pppd noauth connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /root/.pppscriptut' defaultroute
>115200 /dev/modem &
>
> Where the setup is in /root/.ppscriptut, and /dev/modem is a symbolic link
> to my actual modem, /dev/ttyS1.
>
> The /root/.ppscriptut looks like this
>
> ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' '' ATZ OK ATDT*674759996
> Username: your_user_name
> Password: secret_password
> Telesys "ppp negotiate"
>
> where your_user_name and secret_password need to be replaced with the
> right values. You might need to change ATZ to a different init string if
> you know better. I don't think I'm forgetting anything, but I haven't
> needed to change this in two years, and it works in both Linux and OpenBSD
> without change.
> My actual ppp-ut script is slightly more complicated than what I showed
> since I have some other things to setup like updating the hostname, port
> forwarding, etc. but you can read all about stuff like that in those
> howto's.
> If this had no chance of working, I think there is a ppp howto, as well
> as a pppconfig type utility on metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux somewhere.
>
> Adam
>
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