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>>Samba has ICS? I thought it was only for connecting to Windows networks. Right now I am using Windows Internet Connection Sharing feature.
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>Oh, you mean allowing two or more networked computers to share the same internet connection..... Sorry about my confusion. I don't keep abreast of WinXX buz words.
>ICS is a Piece of cake. In my wife's Sony VIAO I put two ethernet cards. Her PC acts as a firewall and connects via eth0 to a Cisco 675 router set up as a dhcp server for my ISPs DLS service. Eth0 gets its IP address from the Cisco dhcp server. Eth1 has a fixed IP address and used to connect to a passive HUB to which my PC and my son's PC were attached. We both had fixed IP addresses. The Sony was setup with IPFORWARD turned on, and /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network files on all machines were set with the respective hostnames and IP addresses. From any box I can telnet or VNC into the other boxes and do maintanence,etc... So, not only to we share the internet transparently and simultaneously, we also share apps and files. The email and newsgroup services work transparently too.
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http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/eznetshare.html>
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/linux-share-internet.asp>
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/clientcfg.htmWell I don't have a router, but the first link above seems easy to follow. I suppose I have good info to evaluate if I want to setup an old machine as a router with Linux or just bite the bullet and get a software firewall/gateway for the connection sharing. The ICS provided by Windows works but is very limited in features.
Thanks.,
