[dundee] broadband in newport

[Dan Sullivan]

In Windows you would be using Internet Connection Sharing.

But then you could always use the linux box as the gateway instead.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ < IPMASQ using linux.

I'm sure many more faqs around.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dundee-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk 
> [mailto:dundee-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Clayton
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:24 PM
> To: dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [dundee] broadband in newport
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:19, David R. Baird wrote:
> > Time to delurk I reckon. Yes, I'm in the Fair City.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > The setup will be an XP box connected to a cable modem, and to a
> > hub which will feed the Linux box. 
> > 
> > I guess I'm asking, what settings do I need to know about to get
> > the network working, once I have Linux installed?
> > 
> 
> Assuming your cable provider will just provide you with 1 dynamically
> allocated IP. You will need to setup IP masquarading (a subset of
> Network Address Translation) on the windows box (windows 
> probably calls
> it something lame).
> 
> You windows box will get its assigned IP on the cable modem interface.
> On its other interface, which will connect to the hub, you will assign
> an IP address from one of the reserved address ranges:
> 
> 	1	Class A		10.x.x.x
> 	15	Class B's	172.16.x.x --> 172.31.x.x
> 	255	Class C's	192.168.0.x --> 192.168.255.x
> 
> 
> e.g
> 
> 172.16.0.1
> 
> on your Linux box you would assign it (the nic, eth0, probably) the
> address 172.16.0.2 and the gateway address would be the address of the
> windows box's private address, in this case 172.16.0.1
> 
> You'll want to probably use the same DNS entries as you use on your
> windows box. Might be worth setting up a caching name server though.
> 
> And thats basically it.
> 
> 
> 
> > Dave. 
> > 
> 
> 
> --
> Andrew
> 
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