This is how I have my home network configured. I took my old system and had it setup as a firewall/masquerade box and it has worked flawlessly for the last 6 months. It also is configured as a caching DNS(with the latest updates of course), which is good considering the at times rediculous response times of the @home DNS when compared to the connection speed. John Albee On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:19:23 -0700 "Alan Pratt" wrote: > There are a number of workarounds for this. I'm on Cox and have five or six > boxes connected. My recommendation would be to set up the Linux box as a > firewall/masquerade box, used a non-routable IP address on the inside > (192.168.X.X) and point the Wintel box's gateway to it. I've set several > systems up this way and it works great. Although it's feasible to set it up > the other way around, I wouldn't recommend it... the Wintel box doesn't > share as well as Linux and doesn't add the firewall for free. > > And yet another way to set up is to buy a personal hardware firewall... > about $150 at Frys... and use it's Network Address Translation (NAT) to > share out the connnection. This works great and doesn't eliminates the > requirement of always running the gateway box to allow the other box to > access the net. > > - Alan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Albee" > To: > Se of nt: Saturday, March 31, 2001 9:56 PM > Subject: Re: Cox - is 2 for 1 possible? > > > > Although I don't profress to know anything about windows connection > sharing... If I remember right you may have to go into the network > properties and bind Internet Connection sharing to your Ethernet card that > goes to your @home router/modem. The preferable thing to do would be to > setup your linux box as the gateway and have the windows system connect thru > it. It shouldnt take more than reading 2 or 3 HOWTOs. With the linux > system as the gateway, your windows box would be inherently more secure. > > > > John Albee > > > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:58:06 -0700 > > "Paul Nauman" wrote: > > > > > I was connected via dialup to AOL through my Win98 machine with Shared > Internet Connection turned on. This allowed me to also access the internet > from my Red Hat 7.0 machine. I am now connected to Cox@home through the > Win98 machine and would like to access the internet from both machines but I > can not get it to work on the Linux system. > > > > > > Do I have to tell Cox that I am using 2 machines to get a second > "CX9999999-a" name, and pay an additional $5.00 per month? :-( > > > > > > There must be a way around this, right? Some one please say yes. :-) > > > > > > I live close to GCC, will this situation be discussed at the West Side > Plug meeting there on Apr. 24th about connecting Linux to the internet? > > > > > > Thanks for any help setting this up. > > > > > > Paul Nauman > > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss