> I have a desktop machine at home which runs Linux. My wife and I each
> have laptops running Win95 and Win3.11 (!) which often come home from
> work.
>
> I'd like to be able to setup a local network & use the desktop machine
> as a gateway to our ISP, but because changing network configurations
> in Windows is such a pain, I'd like to be able to plug in the laptops
> without changing their network configuration. When at home, the
> laptops don't need to be visible to the outside world -- they'll
> basically be originating connections only: telnet, ssh, ftp, smtp,
> pop.
>
> I've been looking through the documentation for NAT, but it is still
> not clear to me if it can support this kind of thing -- it doesn't
> seem to match up to any of the various configurations they describe.
>
> Can anyone tell me whether such a network setup is possible with NAT
> (or some other way) and point me to the best model(s)/example(s) which
> I can use to understand how to configure my setup properly?
This sounds like a job for IP masquerade (which is one form of NAT); the
basics of that are documented in the mini-HOWTO located at
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html
The rest of the problem, connecting the Windows laptops, will depend on
how they're configured, but it should be possible.
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