Windows Internet Connection Sharing

[George Toft]

That's what I do also.  That old PS/1 did not have that option.

George



Bryce wrote:
> 
> On my headless firewall/router, I just changed the halt on errors to all
> except keyboard.
> 
> Bryce C.
> Network Administrator / Scripting Consultant
> CoBryce Communications
> Bryce@BryceCo.Net
> http://www.BryceCo.Net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of George
> Toft
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:06 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Windows Internet Connection Sharing
> 
> Victor Odhner wrote:
> >
> > George Toft wrote:
> > > ... the only time I have had problems in a reboot
> > > was when the power cord was pulled.  The next
> > > reboot had some problems, but I didn't detect
> > > them for over a day.  I was still able to log
> > > in, did an init 6, and then all was fine.
> >
> > I may be confused here:  Doesn't Init 6 bring up
> > the network?  So how did you log in to do that?
> > Or was that when you had to hook up a keyboard?
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> Look in /etc/inittab:
> # The default runlevel is defined here
> id:3:initdefault:
> 
> This shows the normal runlevel is 3.  The runlevels are defined:
> # runlevel 0  is  System halt   (Do not use this for initdefault!)
> # runlevel 1  is  Single user mode
> # runlevel 2  is  Local multiuser without remote network (e.g. NFS)
> # runlevel 3  is  Full multiuser with network
> # runlevel 4  is  Not used
> # runlevel 5  is  Full multiuser with network and xdm
> # runlevel 6  is  System reboot (Do not use this for initdefault!)
> 
> Because of some differences between Linux and Solaris (ie, the shutdown
> command in Linux is the same as init 0, but means init 1 in Solaris), I
> use init 0 to shutdown or init 6 to reboot a box.
> 
> Issuing the init command can be done remotely.  The only problem
> is if your BIOS requires a keyboard while doing the Power On Self Test
> (mine did - it was a 1991 IBM PS/1).
> 
> George
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