RE: [Sheflug] Networking and modem sharing between Mandrake7and win98se

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

I use wwwoffle and wvdial in dial-on-demand mode to give me a shared 
connection with http & ftp proxy & cache which is browseable offline. All 
is included with linux, no extras to install. Nothing is cheaper than a 
Linux server......

On Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:11 PM, Matthew John Palmer 
[SMTP:mjp16 [at] uow.edu.au] wrote:
> 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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