Subject: Re: How to setup IPNAT to allow Win95 to share the dailup line for internet usage
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
List: current-users
Date: 07/14/1999 08:04:40
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 10:45:52PM -0700, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Chan Yiu Wah wrote:
> > I setup the IPNAT  a few days ago and I happy with it.  However, our users
> > cannot sharing the dialup line when they use the netscape on Win95.  Is 
> > there any steps or progams I have to setup for them to use the dailup for 
> > internet browsing purpose.  Can anyone help ?  Thanks.

> 	Can other NetBSD boxes use the IPNAT without problem?
> 
> 	Have you added the local IP address of the IPNAT box to the
> 	windows boxes as a router?
And what about DNS? You have to run a caching nameserver as DNS proxy
since DNS requests (generally) run over UDP and that doesn't work with
ipnat very well (if at all).

BTW: A webcache/proxy like squid is a good idea for problems like this.
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