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Re: Spesial PPP configuration.
OK, before i make a complete fool of myself let me ask a few questions. i'm TRYING to understand. i think
that's good.
Shay Rojansky wrote:
>
> > I have a class with 10 windows95 machines, and I want to add a linux machine to that class so it will do the folowing thing.
> > The linux machine will have the modem that will dial to the internet with a standart account (not a network one).
> > The linux machine will be the gathway to the net for all the class computers (they are connected with a lan).
this is still a problem, right? not yet working?
> > The linux maching will run a proxy so the trafic on the modem will be reduced.
> sounds like it should work quite easily assuming that the prior item does too. right?
> You have two options regarding what to do.
>
> I assume you do not have a Class C (or any other) network. This means
> you do not have your own IP addresses. That means the win95 machines
> cannot really be on the net.
by be on the net you mean have their IP addresses? so they, say, can be accessed from the outside? what about
returning (incoming) traffic ?
However, you can fake:
>
> 1. If Netscape is enough for you, simply run a proxy on the Linux machine.
> That way you don't have to fool around with any networking information.
> This is the easy solution.
> so that the WIN95 machines ask the GW to supply them a page and read the information off the linux
machine?
> 2. If you DO need other services, you must set up IP masquerading.
> Read about IP forwarding and masquerading. Linux Journal had a good
> article about this not long ago. This is the complex solution.
> now you mean using the linux machine as a router, right? see if this feats, using dip to connect to
the Inet server. using the supplied scripts to put the IP address supplied from the server into /etc/hosts,
and using this address to connect to the internet. while the LAN reaches the linux machine thru a static IP
address that belongs the to network card, and is both static and completely local and illegal so as not to be
on the net already. now the 95 machines should be accessible from the net thru the dynamic IP address as some
form of local subnet, but that would give them individual IP addresses that might already be taken, so what
gives?
> Shay
>
> --
> Shay Rojansky, roji@cs.huji.ac.il Finger for PGP public key
THX for all the fish,
Eran.
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