On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:58:40PM +1000, Holroyd Engineering Services
> wrote: I found an article, Howto, about using a pc as an internet gateway
> for a home network (by Paul Ramsay). However the article assumes you have
> a cable link to the internet and unfortunately I have not got the luxury
> of having one. I have, however, like most people, an all-you-can-eat :),
> dialup account. My question is, how easy is it to reconfigure for dialup
> instead off cable?. I ve got ppp configured and it can actually connect to
> my isp, but even on the linux box netscape could not browse the net.
I'm not familiar with this guide, but it should be a fairly simple matter of
substituting the network interface used by a cable modem (eth0 on my
machine) with the interface used by a PPP connection (ppp0)
>
> Does anyone know of any howto or any other artcle that explain in basic
> terms exactly how to enable internet sharing using linux. I think you can
Take a look at the official IP-Masquerading HOWTO at
http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html
It covers masquerading through a dial-up link, and permanent links, and is
fairly easy to follow.
> even have it so that when a request is made by any pc in the internal
> network, it will check to see that ppp is active, if not it will execute
> the appropraite apps to enable the ppp link.
That would be the dial-on-demand, which is seperate to IP-Masquerading, but
apparently they work well together (sorry, never tried myself). It's
covered in the IP-Masq HOWTO, and you might also want to look at the diald
HOWTO (http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/Diald-HOWTO.html)
HTH,
Peter
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