[ale] Can I network my wife's Win95 system to the net via

[Mir Shafiqul Islam]

Red Hat distributions (5.0)+ would not require you to recompile the kernel. It is a fairly tricky but easy short process.
Make sure you have ipfwadm package installed on the system. Then follow the instructions below.

`Linux box ip: 192.168.1.1
Wife's Box : 192.168.1.2
Wife's Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Now using the Red Hat's builtin dialer create and connect to mindspring. You will be assigned a IP address and a default
gateway. Then execute the following from command line on linux box as root.

/sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0

Now try to run something from wife's box. Now, if you have different internal net ip addresses, you need to change the ips
above. I think that's all, though I am not at my home box so can't 100% confirm.

Mir

> 
> At 02:35 PM 12/14/98 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
> >I finally got around to connecting my wife's machine to the hub so we
> >can share printers and files.  She asked me if she can now get on the
> >internet.  I said "Sure".  Now I gotta put up and I don't really know
> >how (or if).  So the configuration is my system that is connected to the
> >net via a ppp connection to mindspring and her Win95 system.  Is there a
> >way that she can run Netscape on Win95 and let me route her connection
> >to mindspring?  I've heard of ip aliasing, but I'm not real sure that is
> >what I want to do.  I've used Samba in the past to interface Linux and
> >Win95, but that doesn't seem like it even enters into the picture.
> 
> 	It's kinda a tricky thing to setup, but I have it working on my home
> machine.. (Of course I have a Cable Modem, so I'm just using IP Masquerading..)
> 
> There's an awesome book I just bought called "The Linux Network" which
> details this process fairly concisely.  (However -- Be forewarned it is
> tailored more to the Slackware user)
> 
> If you want, I can dialog with you in private E-mail on how I set it up and
> give you some tips & tricks...
> 
> It will require re-compiling your kernel so that you can have IP
> Masquerading included...
> 
> Also -- You might want to have a look at the Firewalling and Proxy Server
> HOWTO (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html) or the IP
> Masquerading Mini-HOWTO
> (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html) .. Those are the
> first things I looked at when setting it up for home.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Cheers!
> Jay
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Mir S Islam
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Office of International Services and Programs
Georgia State University  
mir at oisp.gsu.edu