At 11:14 02/08/01 +0100, Duncan McEwan wrote:
>Don't know if anyone's familiar with Sygate, but it does not require the
>net to be accessed via a proxy, but rather configures your net settings
>with the relevant DNS and gateway info...very obliging I thought :) Prob
>is...you need to install software on all client machines to do this and
>there isnt a client for Linux :( so you have to do things manually.
Err. Right. So it would appear to provide some sort of NAT and/or
transparent proxy. The "client" software may simply be pulling in the
address of the DNS server from the gateway box or it may be doing an
infintie number of other things (like re-routing the outgoing connections
to different ports / over/ through other protocols). If they won't tell you
how it works then trying to reverse engineer it could take a very long time.
Getting NT to talk to 2 seperate network cards is always good for a laugh.
Ha....Ha.....Hahheee...he..he..he..ha..kill..Bill...KILL....KILLLL!
>My main box has an internal IP of 10.10.10.1, so I figured that if I set
>up the network settings in Linux to use a gateway of 10.10.10.1 this would
>work. Sadly my *VERY* limited of these areas are showing through..cos it
>didn't work :)
So you couldn't connect/ping anything from the linux box either by name or
IP address? If the ip address thing works, then run winipcfg to get the
address of the nameservers. Note that even if you get your address by DHCP
the DNS servers probably won't change very often.
>Any ideas what I have to set up to access the outside world from this
>Linus box?
Anything which _doesn't_ require "client" software. AIR there are a couple
of good shareware internet connection "sharers" for Windows. But the
solution I'd go for is to hook up your Linux box to your cable modem and
run Squid on it. You can set up proxies or port farwarders easily for any
other services - although FTP, real audio and VOIP can be a bit tricky.
HTH
Colin
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