Windows 98 Internet Connection Sharing

[TheJester]

Would it be possible to set up my Windows Based Modem on a Win 98 Machine using Internet Connection sharing and share the connection with my Linux box? I've VERY New to Linux and would like to get it on the net. Any help would be appreciated.


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[perseus]

Yes you can do that... You'll need to set the default route on your Linux box to hit theWindows box, the proxy on the windows will then route the Linux box out to the net...

[The King Ant]

I've heard that Win98SE won't share a connection with anything other than Win98SE, but I don't know if there's any truth in that...

[TC]

Try this site.
http://www.timhiggins.com/ppd/sharingcable.htm

[Xsecrets]

Yes It can be done. I am doing that right now. What windows does is set your ip on the win98 nic to 192.168.0.1 so you need to set linux up with 192.168.0.1 as the default gateway and use the actual dns (whatever winipcfg on the win98 box gives you) and subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and you should be ready to go. oh and of course your ip should be 192.168.0.x . The internet connection sharing sets up a dhcp server, but for linux it's better to just use static.

[TheJester]

Originally posted by The King Ant:
I've heard that Win98SE won't share a connection with anything other than Win98SE, but I don't know if there's any truth in that...

I've shared it with 98 1st Edition and 95 A B and C but never tried Linux, Wish Me Luck http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[king_arther1]

no luck neccessary.
just download sygate 2.0 and crack it
then tell the linux box

host name 192.168.0.1 (winhoe box)
default gateway winhoe box again
dns (your ISP's info there.)

done.

[mefelan]

is Sygate even necessary?

[Craig McPherson]

Not if you use ICS. Sygate could be used as an alternative to ICS, though.

[jaygee432]

It sounds to me like what you need is this: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/analogx_winproxy.html

[X_console]

Yes, you can, I know because I've done it. However, you may run into some problems. If you're running licq for instance, you'll find it won't work, or if it does, it loses a lot of functionality. From posts I've read, it seems to be a problem with how ICS handles UDP packets or something. If you can get another box, install Linux on it and use IPMasqing. Much more reliable anyway.

[optech]

i just finished sharing my DSL modem with my linux box...
main computer has 2 NIC's. one goes to the modem, the other goes to a crossover cable (can't be straight through) which goes to the other computer... the main computeris running winME (i've done this with 98_SE as well) using ICS (internet connection sharing)...
the other computer is using mandrake 7.2, which comes with a nifty utility called linuxconf in which i set an ip for the linux box... there are several great tutorials on the net for this... it's actualy rather simple... but i forgot to enter my DNS servers, so don't forget those!! you won't be able to ping external systems without using the ip (no hostnames such as 'www.linuxnewbie.org')... so i didn't know that it was working for the first month.. hehe.

[WilliamWallace]

im using comcast@home and my ip is already set...could i use one of these proxies? someone mentioned they changed your ip to 192.168.0.1

[optech]

the ip 192.168.0.1 means that it's an internal IP...
before you tackle a networking problem, learn as much about it as you can...
key things are DNS, proxies, gateways, cables, NIC's...
learn it all... best help you'll recieve...