I meant instead of ip masquerading, not the parallel port thing. I'm sure
you're going to have to get NICs in both machines...unless someone knows of
a neta lil linux app that i don't...
George
At 11:26 PM 4/27/99 -0500, George Winn wrote:
>Wouldn't wingate accomplish basically the same thing?
>George
>
>P.s. Thanks for all the great comments on the ereet linux vs bsd thread
>that i started
>
>At 09:35 PM 4/27/99 -0500, weston wrote:
>>Windoze does have parallel port networking, but according to the PLIP
>>How-To know one has ever successfully connected a windows machine with a
>>linux machine this way.
>>
>>Adam Rogoyski wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, April Escamilla wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> > I have 2 laptops -- one running win95 with UT connect (dial-up
>>> >via modem) and a redhat 5.2 laptop. I am curious on how to set up my
>>> >linux laptop with UT connect, or whatever dial-up service I can use with
>>> >a modem and a linux box. Really though, I am more interested in setting
>>> >up my Linux box to use IP masquerading off of my win95 machine dial-up
>>> >(mostly out of curiosity). Has anyone done this? Does anyone have any
>>> >info about this? Can I do it with 2 modems, or will I need an ethernet
>>> >PCMCIA card for the linux box to masquerade off of my win95 system.
>>>
>>> I'm not too sure if win95 can do nat or masquerading or anything like
>>> that. Usually, people connect with Linux or their favorite BSD and then
>>> let windows and the other machines go through their unix machine.
>>> You need to have some type of physical local network with your machines,
>>> so they'd both need network adapters. (You could use a parallel port
>>> connection but I don't know if windows supports it this way). Then setup
>>> the local network, with the gateway as the masquerading machine. It's
>>> really easy once you've done it and know what to do. You might want to
>>> read the Masquerdaing HOWTO, as well as the Ipfwadm and ipchains howto's
>>> as well. try http://www.linux-howto.com
>>>
>>> > This and any info about dialing into UT with a linux system
>>> >would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
>>>
>>> Hmm. Here is what I do to connect to telesys (I'm using debian 2.2 but
>>> it's probably similiar with redhat). I run ppp-ut to connect. This is a
>>> scripts that looks like this
>>>
>>> #! /bin/sh
>>> /usr/sbin/pppd noauth connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /root/.pppscriptut'
>>defaultroute 115200 /dev/modem &
>>>
>>> Where the setup is in /root/.ppscriptut, and /dev/modem is a symbolic link
>>> to my actual modem, /dev/ttyS1.
>>>
>>> The /root/.ppscriptut looks like this
>>>
>>> ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' '' ATZ OK ATDT*674759996
>>> Username: your_user_name
>>> Password: secret_password
>>> Telesys "ppp negotiate"
>>>
>>> where your_user_name and secret_password need to be replaced with the
>>> right values. You might need to change ATZ to a different init string if
>>> you know better. I don't think I'm forgetting anything, but I haven't
>>> needed to change this in two years, and it works in both Linux and OpenBSD
>>> without change.
>>> My actual ppp-ut script is slightly more complicated than what I showed
>>> since I have some other things to setup like updating the hostname, port
>>> forwarding, etc. but you can read all about stuff like that in those
>>> howto's.
>>> If this had no chance of working, I think there is a ppp howto, as well
>>> as a pppconfig type utility on metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux somewhere.
>>>
>>> Adam
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