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In <4jj9ki$6q6@pan.otol.fi>, aalto@lyseo.otol.fi (Lauri Aalto) wrote:
> Dominic Clifton (dominicc@dircon.co.uk) wrote:
> > I have 2 amiga and 2 pc's and want them to all be able to use my ISP
> > via at the same time, so I need somekind of ip gateway/router program
> > to run on one of the computes that connects to my ISP so that all the
> > other computers can access the internet (they are linked via amitcp,
> > wfw and win 95 at the moment)
> Configure the computer which is linked to both networks, ie. the local one
> and the one of your ISP's, as a gateway machine and make the rest of the
> computers route their traffic to the outside world through the gateway. 
> In most cases all you need to do is to reconfigure your TCP/IP stacks. 
> For instance, in AmiTCP's configuration file you'll just need to change 
> GATEWAY=NO to GATEWAY=YES, configure the two (or more) networking devices 
> and create routes for them. For more specific advice you'll need to be 
> more specific yourself too.

There's a critical step missing in here. You hinted at it, in mentiong
that you have to make all YOUR computers route their traffic to the
outside world through your gateway.

The critical step is to make the outside world route all it's traffic
to those machines through your gateway as well. Fortunately, this
isn't (technically) that hard. Tell your ISP you need traffic to those
IP addresses routed to you as well. They may refuse - at which point
it becomes a political issue. You'll have to deal with that as best
you can.

	<mike