Wouldn't wingate accomplish basically the same thing?
George
P.s. Thanks for all the great comments on the ereet linux vs bsd thread
that i started
At 09:35 PM 4/27/99 -0500, weston wrote:
>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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