Re: Sharing a modem via network

1999-12-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Oh, gosh... I guess I wasn't clear enough. I am not interested in > doing NAT or Masquerading -- I'm on a cable modem, and have NAT > already set up. > > What I was looking for is my workstation being able to use server's > modem to do

Re: Sharing a modem via network

1999-12-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have two boxes: one I use as a workstation, and another one which I > use as a server. I am considering moving my modem into the server. > > What would be involved in using the modem via network from the > workstation? You would lite

Re: Sharing a modem via network

1999-12-22 Thread Arcady Genkin
Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You would literally be putting the modem in the server, and configuring > that for connecting to your ISP. Then you need to set up the server to > use IP masquerading; this is the Linux equivalent of NAT. Once all done, > you simply tell the workstatio

Re: Sharing a modem via network

1999-12-22 Thread aphro
transparent yes mostly..not all tcp apps like ip masq though(same goes for NAT which is in *bsd) id say a good 95% of them don't care either way. see the IPMasq howto for this. or if your using a 2.2.x kernel you can take my example and tweak it (from my /etc/init.d/network) : #setting up IP MA

Sharing a modem via network

1999-12-21 Thread Arcady Genkin
I have two boxes: one I use as a workstation, and another one which I use as a server. I am considering moving my modem into the server. What would be involved in using the modem via network from the workstation? Can it be done transparently for applications? Thanks for any pointers! -- Arcady G