[PLUG] Linux, WinME, & Internet Connection Sharing

[Steve Bourland]

> I am helping a friend set up a Linux box as a gateway for his cable-modem
> LAN. We're having a little trouble, and we thought you might be able to
> help.
> 
> 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?

When I was using at home back in West Lafayette, I had my Linux box using
the service days before they could get the stupid Windoze crap
working.  All I did was use Linuxconf to fill in the DNS IP, and gave my
machine the name and IP provided by @Home.  Some how they had bungled my
account (several times) so that Win98 couldn't talk to their DHCP server,
but Linux had no problems.

> 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).

When I was running, I had my Linux box as my firewall and all my other
machines used it as the gateway as was suggested earlier.  This is
probably the easiest wasy to set up if you have a couple NICs in your
Linux box.  Good Luck!