[ale] Win95 and linux network

[The Wayward Mage]

On Fri, 30 May 1997, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> }Hey all.
> }
> }I've got a windows 95 machine connected to my linux machine via a null
> }modem and serial cable.  The linux box is connected to the modem and I'm
> }using it as a server to the internet for my '95 box (using slirp cause I
> }don't have the drive space to recompile the kernel for ip forwarding).
> }What I'd like to do is reverse my setup so that the '95 machine is my
> }internet machine and serves the linux box.  Does anyone know how to do
> }this?
> 
> I don't have an answer for you but I would like to know why in the world
> would you want to do this.  Sounds like a Honda Civic towing a tow truck...

For one, the linux machine is a 486dx25 with 8M and the '95 machine is a
486dx66 with 20M, and for another, I'm pretty sure I'm getting some kind
of packet loss somewhere because when I use talk programs like Iphone, I
can hear other ppl fine, but my sound comes across gapped and lossy (this
on a 33.6 modem).  I want to connect the modem directly to the '95 machine
and see if that changes anything.

Michael