OT: Recommended windows software

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to heck with that, let me send him my resume :)

David

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Nathan England wrote:

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> 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
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