RE: Win98 to Linux 5.2

[Tom Cooper <tom_cooper bigfoot com>]

OK, here's the deal:
Your home network (The one that connects the '98 box to the linux box) is
working just fine.  You did that right.  Good job!
Your linux box can see the Internet - again, good job.  What you're
complaining about is that a machine on your home network can't see the
Internet.

The reason that your '98 box can't see the Internet is this:  Your linux
box is a terminating point from the Internet.  That means that machines on
the net can see as far as your linux box, but no farther.

Theoretically, you could make your linux box a router, which is a device
that forwards traffic, but practically that is not possible.  This is
because of rules which govern what you can and cannot connect to.  Your ISP
has given you an address which is, for all practical purposes, the end of
the line from an Internet perspective.

Practically, there are a couple of things that you can do about this:
First, you can make your linux machine a proxy server.  In that scenario,
you would effectively have two networks - the Internet, and your Home
network.  A proxy server allows connections from the '98 box to the linux
box (on the home network) and then automagically creates a connection from
the proxy server to the host on the internet that you want to connect to.
If your goal is simply to surf the web from the '98 box, then this is
probably the easiest thing to do.  Apache (the web server which comes with
RedHat) can act as a proxy server for web traffic.  Take a look at the
documentation for Apache - I think you'd be interested in a server
directive related to proxies.

Secondly, you can perform a bit of magic called Network Address Translation
(AKA IP Masquerading) which makes your linux box listen for network traffic
from your home PC, and then forwards that traffic to the Internet, making
it appear to come from the linux box.  This is helpful for web traffic as
well as _all_ other protocols.  This is more difficult, and may be overkill
for your needs.

Hope this is helpful.

Regards,
Tom Cooper
-----Original Message-----
From: O'Sullivan, Dennis J
To: 'redhat list'
Sent: 7/27/99 8:32 PM
Subject: Win98 to Linux 5.2
Importance: High



Hi All
I am a new user of Linux and have been trying to configure my network
with
only little success.
So I am writing this out of frustration, I have a small server running
Redhat 5.2 with a connection to the WWW and 1 Win98 second edition host.
(Networked)

I would like to be able to use the WIN98 host to access the web, my
problem
is that  when I type in www.redhat.com using MS Explorer or Netscape all
I
get is the IP Address being resolved then I long delay before an error
from
Windows saying DNS problem.
I have listed my Linux server in the host file on the win98 host and in
the
LMhost file. (These files don't have any extensions and are in the
Windows
directory) , is this correct location ?
I know the connection is ok on the network as I can map to a drive on
the
server using samba and can transfer files between them.
Has anybody experienced this problem and how did you fix it.

Thanks
Dennis



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