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Re: PPP and two boxes???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacques Gelinas)
Thu Jul 11 09:44:35 1996
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 01:27:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacques Gelinas <jack@solucorp.qc.ca>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <31D6E978.1B4E2D23@ece.engr.ucf.edu>
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On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Hubert A. Bahr wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > i saw a product for win 95 to use a inet connection over a modem on wo
> > > different computers on the client side? Does this exist for Linux?
> >
> > Just about no other operating system needs a magic product for this kind
> > of thing. Linux will also do masquerading so you can have a whole networkon
> > one IP address (handy for security).
>
> I just came to the conclusion that Firewall / masquerading was the
> correct way to do this. Unfortunately, I am still struggling with the docs
> and trial and error to get it set up. Does anyone have this setup with
> a dynamic assigned IP assignment for the internet connection with ethernet
> for the private network. A set of samples may wash the mud off my glasses.
Linuxconf handle this fairly easily with a user interface :-)
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