Re: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-17 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 18:26, Darryl Barlow wrote: > Tom, > > Setting up connection sharing is very easy in Windows. Just look at the > help topic internet connection sharing which should take you through it. I > haven't used it since an early version of Windows 2000. Generally windows > will se

Re: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-16 Thread Darryl Barlow
Tom, Setting up connection sharing is very easy in Windows. Just look at the help topic internet connection sharing which should take you through it. I haven't used it since an early version of Windows 2000. Generally windows will set up the gateway machine on 192.168.0.1 and the gateway wil

RE: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-16 Thread Brendan
-Original Message- From: Tom Badran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 16:40, Torsten Reuss wrote: > The username and password sounds like pppoe (PPP over Ethernet), so you > could put a debian box instead of

Re: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 16:40, Torsten Reuss wrote: > The username and password sounds like pppoe (PPP over Ethernet), so you > could put a debian box instead of the xp box there. Another opportunity > which I can recommend is fli4l, a floppy-disk size linux router > distribution which you can run o

Re: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-16 Thread Torsten Reuss
Tom Badran wrote: That sounds much better, Do these work with services that need username/ password combos to get access? I really didnt want to have to administer a windows box if possible and this sounds like a good plan. The username and password sounds like pppoe (PPP over Ethernet), so yo

Re: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 15:04, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > instead of making that XP box a router, you should consider getting a > cheapo Router/Firewall/NAT-Device a la Netgear or Linksys. That would leave > the 'bad guys' out there much less opportunity for attacks as the IMHO > full-featured (and -u

Re: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-16 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Tom Badran wrote: > At home, my housemate has a adsl connection on a winxp > machine that i would like to share to a variety of hosts... Hi Tom, instead of making that XP box a router, you should consider getting a cheapo Router/Firewall/NAT-Device a la Netgear or Linksys. That would leave the '