[ale] Can I network my wife's Win95 system to the net via

[Jim Kinney]

To add more info to this:

I am doing the same thing thing at home. I added the ipfwadm line to
/etc/rc.d/rc.local so it starts on bootup. I'm using a dialer called
"eznet" I wrote a shell script, one called online, another called offline.

#!/bin/sh
echo "CUSTOM COMMENTS TO MAKE WIFE HAPPY HERE"
eznet up mindspring

The offline is similar. I don't have diald working for automatic dialing
yet (?!?!#$$@#).

I gave her a shell account and made the script runnable by her. Now she
pops up a telnet window, logs in, type "online" and starts netscape.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Mir Shafiqul Islam wrote:

> Red Hat distributions (5.0)+ would not require you to recompile the kernel. It is a fairly tricky but easy short process.
> Make sure you have ipfwadm package installed on the system. Then follow the instructions below.
> 
> `Linux box ip: 192.168.1.1
> Wife's Box : 192.168.1.2
> Wife's Gateway: 192.168.1.1
> 
> Now using the Red Hat's builtin dialer create and connect to mindspring. You will be assigned a IP address and a default
> gateway. Then execute the following from command line on linux box as root.
> 
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
> 
> Now try to run something from wife's box. Now, if you have different internal net ip addresses, you need to change the ips
> above. I think that's all, though I am not at my home box so can't 100% confirm.
> 
> Mir
> 
> > 
> > At 02:35 PM 12/14/98 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > >I finally got around to connecting my wife's machine to the hub so we
> > >can share printers and files.  She asked me if she can now get on the
> > >internet.  I said "Sure".  Now I gotta put up and I don't really know
> > >how (or if).  So the configuration is my system that is connected to the
> > >net via a ppp connection to mindspring and her Win95 system.  Is there a
> > >way that she can run Netscape on Win95 and let me route her connection
> > >to mindspring?  I've heard of ip aliasing, but I'm not real sure that is
> > >what I want to do.  I've used Samba in the past to interface Linux and
> > >Win95, but that doesn't seem like it even enters into the picture.
> > 
> > 	It's kinda a tricky thing to setup, but I have it working on my home
> > machine.. (Of course I have a Cable Modem, so I'm just using IP Masquerading..)
> > 
> > There's an awesome book I just bought called "The Linux Network" which
> > details this process fairly concisely.  (However -- Be forewarned it is
> > tailored more to the Slackware user)
> > 
> > If you want, I can dialog with you in private E-mail on how I set it up and
> > give you some tips & tricks...
> > 
> > It will require re-compiling your kernel so that you can have IP
> > Masquerading included...
> > 
> > Also -- You might want to have a look at the Firewalling and Proxy Server
> > HOWTO (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html) or the IP
> > Masquerading Mini-HOWTO
> > (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html) .. Those are the
> > first things I looked at when setting it up for home.
> > 
> > Hope this helps!
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > Jay
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Mir S Islam
> Systems Administrator
> Office of International Services and Programs
> Georgia State University  
> mir at oisp.gsu.edu
>