On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, James Mellema wrote:
>
> the easiest way is to assign whatever your wingate computer's ethernet
> card address as the proxy address in your browser and email program. I
> did the same thing with my cable modem connection and it worked fine.
> everything using wingate as a proxy should use port 80. I was not able
> to configure my system to use ftp, but everything else worked fine. I
> agree that making your linux box is a better idea, but I have never been
> able to get 2 ethernet cards to work right in linux, so I use an NT box
> and Sygate to connect my network to the net.
>
*cough* You don't really NEED two ethernet cards to do that... you
just assign a second IP address to the card that's in there... OTOH,
if you have two different cards (or two of the same card hard-coded
to different IRQ & I/O addresses) it should work just fine. :-)
John
