Cox - is 2 for 1 possible?

[Michael J. Schweppe]

Hi Paul:

Since I'm not as adept [yet :-)] as many on this list, I found the
following to be an extremely newbie-friendly solution for my
situation.  I'm on Cox as well and have my RH 6.2 serving as my
firewall/gateway with the Win box behind it.

I first ran bastille to harden the Linux box and then installed PM
Firewall.  [bastille will support RH 7 very soon according to their
site].  I then installed PM Firewall [which will configure the NICs
too].  

The only caveat to be aware of is that you will need to run with a
static ip.  In the year with Cox I have only had the ip change once
though :-)

http://www.pmfirewall.com

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bastillelinux/

Mike



On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 21:56:48 -0700, John Albee <guesswho911@home.com>
wrote:

>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" <pfnauman@home.com> 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