TCP/IP, Lans and Internet access

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#15582

Author: ?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 00:00

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I have a small LAN (6 PCs running '95).
We have 1 modem.
Objective: Internet access (Mail and Web) from each PC without buying 
expensive routers, software.

We do not want to register as a class C subnet. Ideally we would have 
the modem on our NT server dial-up our ISP and pick up our mail using 
SMTP, then using MS Exchange server to convert it into POP3 format and 
then use MS Exchnage clients on our PCs to read our mail. 

For Web access we could run a proxy server on our NT server and have 
that connect to the ISP whenever a page is requested.
We would run TCP/IP over the LAN (using the private network IP numbers) 
and have the NT server's private IP address is our web browsers settings 
as the proxy server. When ever we request a page the NT proxy server 
dials up, gets it and passes it back to the LAN client.

Would this work? Is it the best solution? WHERE do I find an NT Proxy 
server? Comments?

Thanks in advance, Ben.

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WebMaster at Tyger Internet (http://www.tyger.co.uk)
Email to: root@tyger.co.uk

Re: TCP/IP, Lans and Internet access

#15583

Author: liam
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 00:00

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? <root@tyger.co.uk> wrote:

>I have a small LAN (6 PCs running '95).
>We have 1 modem.
>Objective: Internet access (Mail and Web) from each PC without buying 
>expensive routers, software.

>We do not want to register as a class C subnet. Ideally we would have 
>the modem on our NT server dial-up our ISP and pick up our mail using 
>SMTP, then using MS Exchange server to convert it into POP3 format and 
>then use MS Exchnage clients on our PCs to read our mail. 

>For Web access we could run a proxy server on our NT server and have 
>that connect to the ISP whenever a page is requested.
>We would run TCP/IP over the LAN (using the private network IP numbers) 
>and have the NT server's private IP address is our web browsers settings 
>as the proxy server. When ever we request a page the NT proxy server 
>dials up, gets it and passes it back to the LAN client.

>Would this work? Is it the best solution? WHERE do I find an NT Proxy 
>server? Comments?

>Thanks in advance, Ben.

>----------------
>WebMaster at Tyger Internet (http://www.tyger.co.uk)
>Email to: root@tyger.co.uk


I am trialling the EMWACS SMTP receiver, delivery and POP3 server
services for NT on our network at the moment. They are free, install
well and seem to work quite well........   have a look at
http://emwac.ed.ac.uk/

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