Odds are he installed AOL 5.0 which kills any other dial based access under
Windows.
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> 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
>
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