mandrake ics win 98se

[JFettig]

i havnet used linux much, but im gonna convert, my moms computer would be like the internet server machine for me.. because i only have dialup and winmodem
my external modem blew up in a storm, so i only have a winmodem

now im wondering how networking would go on these machines, would it be difficult? and would ics be difficult to do?

im going on a posting spree today;)

thanx

[JFettig]

c'mon guys help the stupid kid out! ;)

[jajmon]

masked - you are not a 'stupid' kid, i've read a lot of your posts that say otherwise. You give very good advice!

dialup - sharing bites, to say the least, but if that is what you have, alright then. You can try a prog from www.anologx.com, they have a free proxy server prog. I think it works on dial-up. You would need to load this on the windoze pc, (dial-up) and then point your linux box gateway/dns to that box. Sorry for the brief discreption, but I know you should be able to figure it out.

Oh, I see you changed your avatar. :)

[JFettig]

did you see the;) meaning it was a joke, hehe:p it was my versain of a bump,

and thanx! i hope that will work, i dont know how to do much in linux yet, or really anything, so i think ill just play it as it goes...

anyone else know much about it?

[JFettig]

ok i mite be getting the hookups on a external modem.. is there a way to use mandrake and share from mandrake to windoze???

[supraway]

Yes, there is. In fact, Mandrake includes a nice little wizard (sorry for the Windoz lingo :)) to get it all set up for you. Beware, though, if you use Mandrake 8.1, you may run into a little bug which prevents ICS from working. If you set up sharing in Mandrake, and it doesn't work, as root, remove /etc/sysconfig/iptables by using the command "rm /etc/sysconfig/iptables" in your CLI. Sorry for not going into an explanation, but it is pretty unimportant.

[JFettig]

sweet thanx


and when i used redhat 7 i could never get my modem to work... it would dial and dial and dial never connect.... will i have the same issue with mandrake??? its also gonna be a diff modem..