Internet server on Linux box...

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

You can use IP masquerading. Your Linux box would use the PPP 
interface as the masquerate interface. Should work much the same way 
as setting it up for 2 NICS. A guy here at work does this at home with an 
old laptop.  
On 4 Jan 2001, at 15:46, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:

> I have a LAN running at home with a variety of computers running off the
> network (with various speed modems). I connect to Ultranet as my ISP.
> How do I set up my linux computer to perform internet hosting (that is,
> I would like to connect to the Internet singly using my linux computer
> to dial up my isp and have other household computers to attach to the
> Internet during that connection). Is this something that can be done
> easily? What settings using which applications. (I am using static IP
> addresses because I am also using a peer to peer network when family is
> on windows.)
> 
> Thanks
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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