One possible Windows solution (not open source or Linux) is to use Wingate
(
www.deerfield.com) as a proxy server for the cable modem. It can handle
all the issues of redialing and restoring the connection automatically,
pooling modems and lines, etc. I put it on a little 486 box with a NIC
connected to my private LAN. I used it for years on Win 95 and Win 98
before I got a linksys router and only had one problem. I had to reboot the
486 Windows machine once a week because the system would slowly run out of
memory - I assume the OS was leaking over time. But that is what you get if
you use Windows!
Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc.
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
480 945-0798
480 945-9197 fax
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-----Original Message-----
From: daz@undertaker.homeip.net [SMTP:daz@undertaker.homeip.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:50 AM
To: Phoenix Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: OT: Recommended windows software
to heck with that, let me send him my resume :)
David
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Nathan England wrote:
> >
> I am leaving my company on the 28th. As a result my boss is requiring me
to
> replae our linux server with a windows one. The linux machine currently
runs
> dhcp, dns, ipmasq/routing/firewall/gateway,sendmail, web server, mysql,
and
> some other minor things.
>
> I replaced it with win98, but we need some way to share an internet
> connection. We own a copy of WinProxy but anyone familiar with it will
know
> how crappy it is. But I want some kind of open source solution that will
run
> on the windows machine... It has to be windows because my boss doesn't
know
> linux and after a year has shown no interest in learning.
>
> The major problem is we use cable for internet. But it is dialup...
Payson is
> about 20 years behind the times on everything...
> So if we are not online, we have a local IP address 192.168.100.11-254
> When we dialup, we get a normal internet IP... But if the cable modem
drops
> the line (which is quite often) we will retain the internet IP, then
other
> machines can no longer get to the cable modem web page to dialup. The
linux
> machine was easily fixed with a simple script, but windows won't do that.
So
> this has to be as simple as possible. I need some kind of intelligent
gateway
> program that will allow proxying, for email and www.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> nathan
>
> - --
> Nathan England
>
> Arcanum Linux !
> nathan at the-arcanum.org
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>
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> - --Adlai Stevenson
>
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