Re: [Sheflug] Networking and modem sharing between Mandrake7 andwin98se

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Steve Tickle wrote:

> > > 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...
> 
> Alternatively, you could use a proxy server like WinProxy www.winproxy.cz 
> which you can install on your windoze box and which is very good. The 
> downloadable "demo" version is actually fully useable but only supports two 
> simultaneous users (which I think is enough for your purposes). If there 

Are you nuts?  A Linux box, set up as per

http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16/wylug-netlinux

will do things much better, with less hardware costs, better
configurability, and it can do a hell of a lot more-  not to mention no
"simultaneous user" limits.

> Sorry to appear to be plugging windoze s/w but this might be the easiest 
> (and cheapest) solution.

In the swerver line, nothing is easier and cheaper than Linux.


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