Re: [Sheflug] Networking and modem sharing between Mandrake7 and win98se

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     Neil> I'd like to know if there's a way to modem share when I am
>     Neil> connected using KPPP (file sharing being a bonus).
> 
> IP masquerade probably does what you need.
> /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO

Yep, look up the bit of gateways in the NET howto too; it's actually very
good. 

> or something like that.  Distro kernels usually have the necessary
> features built in, and the rest of it is pretty straightforward.  If
> you have dial-on-demand, anybody using your box as a gateway will too.

SuSE wvdial.dod has worked great for me in the past - it runs pppd in
'demand' mode, and seems relatively clever. The only thing you have to be
careful of is the not-so-clever Win boxes running outlook or something,
polling the mail box every five minutes. Some phone bill :(

> The modem probably has to be on the Linux box.

I believe there is *a* version of Win9X that modem shares (possibly a plus
pack or something), but having it on the Linux box is far easier...

Cheers,

Alex.


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