This is tangentially related to linux so bear with me until i'm done :)
A friend of mine is running a windows based office. This is a matter of fact and
she's not prepared to change that right now. Recently, I connected all the
machines on a 10Mbit lans under Win95 going through a hub. One of the machines
also has a modem in it and the user of that machine wants to be able to connect
to various ISPs while still being on the LAN. When he dials up with Bellsouth,
it connects but it doesn't actually allow him to do anything on thwe web, telnet
or via ftp. its as if its still looking at the LAN connection for access. But get
this: when he connects to AOL, everything works fine.
In unix networking, you can just set a default route so that all traffic goes
through a particular interface. How the heck do you do this in Windows? I have
a simiar set at home for my wife's game machine (can you say Everquest Addict?)
and she doesn't have the problem. The only thing that I can find that might be
relavant is that if you go to the Network panel, it lists the Dialup Adapter
first on my wife's machine but not on my frien'ds machine. Is this it? And if so,
how do you rearrange the networking devices on a windows box?
On a similar note, my friend hates the fact that she has to have a modem in every
machine to be able to get internet connectivity for her small office. She is
intrigued by the linux based solutions that I proposed using linux. She has told
me that if I can fix this networking problem with windows for the moment, then
she will try out the linux solution for the LAN internet capability.
Any help?
V
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