[PLUG] Linux, WinME, & Internet Connection Sharing

[Will Andrews]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:31:44PM -0500, Hayden Olenik wrote:
> First of all, his cablemodem provider, @Home, requires a DHCP name
> specified, which I can't figure out how to tell it to do. Does anyone know
> of a script that will help set up and configure an IP Masq box for an @Home
> connection, or can they point the way to a mini-HOWTO or something?

It should be the name assigned to your IP address.  I.e. if your reverse
dns is cr873356-a.ym1.on.wave.home.com, try cr873356-a.

That's my best guess since I've never used @home myself.

> Second, while we're setting it all up, his LAN is running on WinME Internet
> Connection Sharing. Is there a way to set up the linux box to use WinME as
> a gateway? It's not working right now, and I can't figure if there is a
> proprietary setup at work here (The PITA of Security by Obscurity I guess).

Why not set your Linux machine up to use ipmasq and tell the WinME
machine to use it as a gateway?  If you can obtain internet connection
on the Linux mahcine it should be trivial to set up ipmasq to take care
of this.

> Any help, other than "Why use WinME at all, set up all machines to use
> Linux/*NIX/*BSD" would be appreciated. I know perhaps a BSD would be more
> fitting because of security, but Linux is what I am familiar with, and SysV
> is what he is familiar with.

Security is analogous to functionality (well, to some extent).  I've
never used Linux, but my FreeBSD workstation does NAT just fine and
handles my internal machines' connections perfectly.  Personally, I'd
prefer to use a 486 running NetBSD, but I don't have such hardware.

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wca