BAD NEWS!! DO NOT USE THIS SITE! This was written for linux 2.2 using ipchains.. I suggest you do not use this site .. at least not explicitly.. I am still searching for a decent site that explains this using a recent version of linux. Tommy On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 11:03, Carter, Shaun G wrote: > Has anyone pointed you here? > > http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Networks/Easy_Internet_Sharing.html > > Shaun > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Nall [mailto:jnall01@alltel.net] > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:53 PM > To: RH8.0 List > Subject: Internet Connection Sharing with Linux > > > There is something I can't seem to grasp, and so far I have not found the > answer. I'm trying to ween myself away from Windows and migrate to Linux > (for several reasons) but gosh it sure is not easy to do even when one is > determined. How in the world do you accomplish ICS??? > > With Windows XP I just set up one machine as the one with access to the > Internet (through a dial-in modem) using the Network Configuration > Wizard. The other two machines (on a 3-machine home LAN) then are set up > as having their access through the network. Easy to do, works like a > charm. (I am NOT praising Windows, merely observing that it is easy to do > this). > > It is not easy with Linux. With assistance from people here, pointing me > to HOWTO's and tutorials, I think that I have managed to get the dial-up > machine working OK, but setting up the other two machines to access the > Internet through the network seems to be a black hole. Using the Network > Configuration tool (from Gnome) on them merely seems to duplicate what I > already did when setting up the Ethernet connection. Do they have to know > an IP address for a name server?? This takes place at my ISP, so I don't > have any way of knowing the IP address for it. > > As I said, I'm doggedly trying to do this switch over, but it sure is not > easy. Sometimes I think that Linux afficionados just take a peverse pride > in things being difficult. That way, just everyone and his or her brother > can't do it. :-) (If I am honest with myself, I will probably be the > same way once I get it down. IF I live long enough). > > John > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Tommy McNeely <Tommy.McNeely@Sun.com> Sun Microsystems -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
