13 Apr
2000
13 Apr
'00
5:21 a.m.
Trivial. I use a Windows 98 box which comes with internet sharing. This was
the old
NAT95 product they acquired from Nevod. It acts as a simple firewall and
DHCP server.
I found an old 266MHz system with a small disk and 64MB of memory,
installed Win98
and enabled the internet sharing. It nicely serves up my six machines and
two network
printers through my cable modem.
I had an NT 4 machine running MS Proxy Server, but that was a very heavy-handed
approach to the problem. At one time, I also tried WinGate but it didn't
work well,
I was always having problems accessing odd port numbers. The Win98 solution
is fast and easy to install. I've never rebooted the server. FWIW.
At 10:38 PM 4/12/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Sorry for the partially off-topic question, but I'm
stumped.
I'd like to set up more of my systems in a home network environment, but I
don't really properly understand routing and am looking for some help.
My internet access is through a cable modem that acts as a DHCP server,
allocating up to three IP addresses to specifically-named systems. For
instance systems "foo1", "foo2" and "foo3" will get IP
addresses from the
modem, while "foo4", "foo5" and "foo6" will not.
I thought about snagging a small PC with a couple of NICs and running
ShareTheNet or WinGate, but I recently picked up a used Alpha running NT
with a pair of NICs that I'd like to try out as a router. Right now, the
Alpha has one of the magic system names (foo1), so one of the network
adapters gets a DHCP-served IP address. I have the other adapter's IP
address defined as 192.168.0.101, with the mask as 255.255.255.0 and no
gateway defined.
I want to set the following systems up with static IP addresses:
192.168.0.105 SGI Indy
192.168.0.106 Symbolics Lisp Machine
192.168.0.107 NeXT Cube
192.168.0.108 Pentium II Laptop
192.168.0.109 Pentium Desktop
192.168.0.110 DEC Shark
192.168.0.111 iOpener
I'd like to set up these machines to use 192.168.0.102 as their gateway.
Seems to me that if I have the Alpha set up properly, I shouldn't need to do
any special route definitions on the other systems, right?
So, any suggestions on how I should set up the two NICs on the Alpha under
NT 4.0?
-- Tony