which has no bearing on the fact that he can't xfer data on the web using
somethign other than AOL...
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Knight ">ray.knight@e-certify.com>
To: 'Vernard Martin' ">vernard@cc.gatech.edu>; ">ale@ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 2:42 PM
Subject: RE: [ale] strange question
> Odds are he installed AOL 5.0 which kills any other dial based access
under
> Windows.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ">owner-ale@ale.org [mailto:">owner-ale@ale.org]On Behalf Of Vernard
> > Martin
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 2:29 PM
> > To: ">ale@ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] strange question
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Vernard Martin (">vernard@cc.gatech.edu) Darkness has a hunger
> > that's insatiable
> > http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vernard/ Lightness has a call
> > that's hard to hear
> > Atlanta Linux Showcase October. 10-14, 2000
> > http://www.linuxshowcase.org
> > --
> > To unsubscribe: mail ">majordomo@ale.org with "unsubscribe ale"
> > in message body.
>
> --
> To unsubscribe: mail ">majordomo@ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message
body.
--
To unsubscribe: mail ">majordomo@ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.