RE: IP Masquerading & Windows Internet Sharing

[David Krings <RamonS gmx net>]

Hi !

	IMHO that is THE next step all the Linux coders and developers should work
on. It is great to have the opportunity to have a secure system that can do
IP masquerading and much more - but what does it do if i have to be a
rocket scientist to configure it and set it up ?
	One big point of an OS is easyness, not only flexibility, stability and
security counts. And mentioning Windows, it comes along in different
languages, Linux is english only - which gets me into trouble pretty often
altough i might say that my english is not too bad.
	Linux is far more difficult to set up, if one wants to have more ppl use
Linux, make things easier to configure.


			Just my two Pfennigs,


					Greez

						Dave

°snip°
>Because there is an auto-configure for the proxy server that Win98 Internet 
>Sharing apparently has.  According to my friend, it's everything he wanted.  
>All he really want is a system to point and click through setup.\
>
>Me, I prefer my IP Masq box.  But, I do believe that the only reason we had 
>so many problems setting the box up is because he had a negative attitude to 
>begin with.  Really.  I've seen it work this way many times.  I am pretty 
>good at setting up Linux boxen these days, and this was the installation 
>from hell.  (He does have a LOT of PnP stuff in his system)
>