> question:
>
> Is IP-masquerading at all feasible in the case of dynamic allocation of the
> IP-address by the ISP?
Absolutely. I (and many others) do it every day.
> The IP-masquerading mini Howto (as published in "Doctor Linus" by Red Hat)
> seems to assume a fixed IP-address on the side of the host that dials-up
> to the ISP.
Take a look at "man pppd" where it talks about ip-up processing, and take a
look at /etc/ppp/ip-up.
You might also want to take a look at
http://www.wolfenet.com/~jhardin/ipfwadm.html
for a tool that will make managing this easier for you, and
http://www.wolfenet.com/~jhardin/ipfwadm/invocation.html
for information on how to set up your firewall to reconfigure itself for
dynamic IP addresses.
> I
> wonder whether the 486 can masquerade as the pentium, when I don't know the
> IP-address that is to be masqueraded beforehand.
When your PPP session comes up, /etc/ppp/ip-up is executed with the IP address
as a command line parameter. Simply put your firewall code into
/etc/ppp/ip-up.local, using that as the source of the IP address information.
> If IP-masquerading is not feasible in this case, can anyone indicate other
> ways to make use of the network to enable the 486 to use the resources of the
> pentium - or indicate places to look for that kind of information.
You'll probably want to set up squid on the Pentium and point all of your
browsers at it as their proxy. In addition to reducing your network traffic,
this will allow you control over what sites she has access to. I can supply a
Squid-1.1.21 RPM if you can't find one elsewhere.
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