Windows Internet Connection Sharing

[Gene Holmerud]

Here's a different track that'll leave you set up better:

Go to http://www.freesco.org/ and follow the help.  Then buy a used 
Pentium I box (hard drive not needed).  Freesco gives you the routing 
you are looking for as well as decent firewalling, by hiding your 
internal boxes behind Network Address Translation (NATing).  You can 
have many boxes online at once and COX only sees one.

The bottom line:  the software is free!

Satisfied user,
Gene

From:           	Victor Odhner <vodhner@cox.net>
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Subject:        	Windows Internet Connection Sharing
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> These are questions about connecting a Linux
> box via Win98SE ICS to a Cox cable modem.
> I know this is backwards, but the Windows box
> is what runs full time; the Linux box will only
> run a few hours a day at most, for development
> work.  So I'm basically trying to get the Windows
> box to serve as a NAT hub and save me any added
> hardware purchases.
> 
> My main computer dual-boots to RedHat 7.1 but most of
> the time it is running Windows 98 Second Edition.
> This is the family's always-on online "resource", and
> there are reasons why it has to be a Windows box.
> 
> I have another Linux (Debian) machine, but
> nobody else would be using it so it would be
> turned off most of the time.  I had intended
> to make this my firewall, but that's not
> happening in the near future.  I can't justify
> running two boxes all the time when only one
> is being used.  (Some nice low-power boxes are
> hitting the market -- maybe next year I can
> have a more serious configuration.)
> 
> So:  Can I set up Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing
> (ICS) on the Win98 box, with a second NIC, and let
> that connect my Debian box to the Cox cable?
> 
> Will the Windows box be able to routinely
> connect into the Debian box?  (Or does ICS
> somehow "take ownership" of the client's
> connection so it can't be used for other
> purposes?)  Most of my Linux operation would
> use the Windows keyboard and monitor, since
> I can't afford a KVM switch right now.
> 
> I'm running Tiny Personal Firewall on the Windows
> box, and I presume it will have to have a rule
> added to allow ICS to connect out.
> 
> My Win98 SE box has "Microsoft Family Logon"
> enabled to permit use of individual profiles.
> If the current user "logs off" their profile
> on Win98, will that interrupt the ICS connections
> from the Debian box?
> 
> Vic
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