I didn't catch the original post, sorry.
The method Dan Kronstadt describes below is probably a better fit based
on the original query. However, a second way you could accomplish the
same thing is by dialing into the internet on the box with LINUX and
using ipchains to forward packets between the your private two node
network and the ppp connection -- and yes, ipchains happily does
masquerading (aka NAT). This would be my choice for several reasons,
and to be honest and upfront about, the primary reason is my opinion of
the Microsoft OSs. Now that I've given everything away letting you
know I have a real bias, I'll also add that I know that with ipchains I
can control what comes in through the ppp connection and what goes in
and out of the private net since ipchains is a complete packet
filtering system. The other nice thing is that all the required
software is already compiled into the kernel in rh 6.2 so there's
nothing else to install (and to be fair, OTOH, doing packet filters
correctly can be a daunting task).
FYI: VMWare and Samba are different animals entirely. VMWare (which is
a commercial product -- a hobbiest license is $99) sets up virtual
machines into which you can install a different OS. It is not like
WINE which attempts to emulate aspects of the OS so you can run win32
programs, but rather a full virtual machine which just emulates some of
the hardware pieces. I'm going to be doing some contract development
work and will be installing an entire NT with IIS inside a VMWare
virtual machine. Samba enables a UNIX machine to act as a node on a
win95/98 or NT network. If you run Samba on your LINUX box, you can
share files back and forth with the win95 machine -- which you might
want to look at no matter what mechaism you choose for getting the
whole thing connected to the internet. Samba is open source and I
believe the url is www.samba.org. Samba also comes with you RedHat
distribution. If you didn't install it when you first installed the
system, you can always go back into the installer and choose upgrade.
-- Rob
--On 09/23/00 12:24:51 PM -0700 Dan Kronstadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do this now with nat32 running on the win95 machine, which connects
> over my cable modem. Check out www.nat32.com. I tried windows
> internet connection sharing - dont bother. Nat32 supports everything
> - its a router, not a proxy server like most of the other products.
>
>
> At 09:13 PM 9/21/00 -0700, Huttinger wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have two win95 boxes networked together with two ethernet cards
>> and software called Ishare. The win95 box I use has Linux Redhat
>> 6.2 on it as a dual boot LILO system. Is it possible to use Linux
>> to access the net through the ethernet card using the win95 box that
>> is dialed in to the internet as a server? Perhaps someone could
>> point to a book where they tell how to do this. I have read about
>> VMware and Samba but my interpretation is they won't work for what I
>> want to do. Any information appreciated. Mike Huttinger
>>
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