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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