Tricky routing/vpn question

[Thomas Cameron]

No sweat - IIRC, ICS hands out 192.168.0.0/24 addresses.  Just statically
assign an ip address in that range behind the Win98 box and you will be
golden.

Thomas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kurt Granroth" <kurt@granroth.org>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: Tricky routing/vpn question


> Here's a puzzle:
>
> Say you need to get an X session using XDMCP over a VPN.  However, that
> VPN only has Windows client.  You are using Exceed and that works but
> you would prefer to use Linux (or OS X) with a "real" X setup.  But see
> above: the VPN *requires* Windows to run.
>
> So you investigate the "Internet Connection Sharing" that comes with
> Win98SE thinking that you could just do a 'route add -net' pointing to
> the Windows computer.. but it doesn't work that way since the ICS works
> using DHCP and you like your Linux box's current IP address just fine,
> thank you very much.
>
> But with that, you are somewhat stuck!
>
> Or at least, *I* am stuck.  Can anybody think of a way that I can do
> some sort of redirection or port forwarding on my Windows box that
> would allow me to access the VPN from Linux?
>
> Kurt
>
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