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 EH> From: ipswtafe@gil.ipswichcity.qld.gov.au (Eric Hornsby)

 EH> thanks for reading this post...

 EH> This is what I'm trying to do:

 EH> I have a Linux box  (486dx2/66, 16 M RAM, Linux 1.2.13) with a ppp
 EH> link  (dynamically assigned IP number) to my ISP...ppp works fine.
 EH> I want to set up a small ethernet network of PCs with various
 EH> configurations,  including some DOS/Windows ones, that can use my Linux
 EH> box as a gateway to  share the ppp link.

 EH> I'd like to be able to use Netscape and various winsock apps on the
 EH> networked  PCs to provide Web browsing, news reading and eventually
 EH> email to our users  (this is a library).

 EH> I gather I can set up a web server on my linux box to service requests
 EH> from  the other PCs...I'm not too sure how I can provide news and
 EH> mail...
 EH> My main question is:  What can I use for a TCP/IP stack on the PCs ? I
 EH> wanted  to use Trumpet Winsock, but you seem to have to specify a comms
 EH> port for it to  work (i want to use ethernet).  I'd like a free/cheap
 EH> solution ;-)

 Generally you would use the TCP/IP stack that comes with your network for
 linking the Linux and dos/windows PCs together. Then run your software on
 top of this. This would mean setting up an internal IP network, unless you
 have a registered ip domain, in which case you use those numbers, if your
 ISP knows about them.

 Your linux box takes the supplied number from the ISP and routes to your
 internal network. The trick is that everything going outside has to have
 your given public IP number by the provider and your linux boxes has to
 know where the  incoming messages go to give them their internal network
 numbers. Usually this is set up in your system. I know how to do it
 with mail, but have not yet done it with other stuff. Basically, your
 linux boxs has to know the host to forward it to.

 I've looked into this for SCO Unix sometime ago, but not Linux.

 Yes, you could set up a Web server on your linux box. This would
	allow you to test your TCP/IP links across your internal network.
	It can be an easier way to shift persistent data than ftp.
	Jusy give Mosaic/Netscape your internal IP number for your linux
	box as the host and run a web server on it.

My understanding, from SCO, is to provide mail, you can either automatically
	go out and collect it at set times or collect on demand. SCO talks
	about setting up a PPP link to the service provider to collect the mail.

Essentially you want a PPP link established on demand, which then passes on
the request to the ISP system, which responds and passes it back.

These are general suggestions. I' afraid that hardware limitations have held
	up my own attempt at doing this.


	Terry {:-)}}}


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 EH> I'd appreciate any suggestions/advice, for the TCP/IP stack or about
 EH> the rest  of the plan.  Thanks for your time...

 EH> Eric


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