SLUG Mailing List ArchivesSLUG Mailing List ArchivesOn Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:58:40PM +1000, Holroyd Engineering Services > wrote: I found an article, Howto, about using a pc as an internet gateway > for a home network (by Paul Ramsay). However the article assumes you have > a cable link to the internet and unfortunately I have not got the luxury > of having one. I have, however, like most people, an all-you-can-eat :), > dialup account. My question is, how easy is it to reconfigure for dialup > instead off cable?. I ve got ppp configured and it can actually connect to > my isp, but even on the linux box netscape could not browse the net. I'm not familiar with this guide, but it should be a fairly simple matter of substituting the network interface used by a cable modem (eth0 on my machine) with the interface used by a PPP connection (ppp0) > > Does anyone know of any howto or any other artcle that explain in basic > terms exactly how to enable internet sharing using linux. I think you can Take a look at the official IP-Masquerading HOWTO at http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html It covers masquerading through a dial-up link, and permanent links, and is fairly easy to follow. > even have it so that when a request is made by any pc in the internal > network, it will check to see that ppp is active, if not it will execute > the appropraite apps to enable the ppp link. That would be the dial-on-demand, which is seperate to IP-Masquerading, but apparently they work well together (sorry, never tried myself). It's covered in the IP-Masq HOWTO, and you might also want to look at the diald HOWTO (http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/Diald-HOWTO.html) HTH, Peter
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