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David Pinkerton <davidhp@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

: I am trying to setup a linux box (kernel 1.2.1) to act as a router
: between a dialup ppp connection (28.8K) and a WFW network running the
: Microsoft TCP/IP stack.
You'll have to do more than that.  You see you problem is that, as you said, 
the 192.192.192 address is bogus.  So when you do something from the WfW
machine to the outside, your ISP's router sees this packet from
192.192.192.x and says 'this is bogus' and dumps the packet.

Now, there are two ways around this.  The first is to give your WfW PC
a valid IP address, ie a 203 type number, but then you would have to ask
the ISP very nicely to do some things.  and it is a hassle if you are on
a dialup link, which I assume it is.

The only other way is to fool your ISP (and therefore the Internet) into
thinking there is only one host on the PPP line.  To do this, you need
to setup IP masquerade.  It's a bit tricky, but is possible.

Oh, there is another way, sort of.  You could put caching software on
your Linux machine, if you just wanted WWW access.

Three solutions, no easy ones.

: It also takes a very long time to telnet into the linux box while the ppp
: link is up.
This is probably due to some sort of funny with the DNS.  When the PPP is 
down and the WfW connects, Linux says "who is 192.192.192.x" and immediately
it says "don't know".  Now with PPP, it has the whole internet out there to
ask "who is 192.192.192.x" , this takes a long time to do.  It is highly
likely that it doesn't even get an answer after all that waiting.

  - Craig
PS  Totally separate topic, have you tried Samba?  I use it here with my
WfW machine and it runs great.

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