sharing a dial-up connection with a win95 system

[jeremy at itassist.net.au]

On  5 Sep, Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:
> jeremy wrote:
>> On  4 Sep, Mick Howe wrote:
>> > I wish to setup my RedHat 7.1 linux to provide access to 
>> the web for a Win95 
>> > system. any tips or reference to a readable howto?
> 
>> little while to work through - there's a lot there.
> 
> Conversely, the Windows net sharing is not that painless
> either. I was going to share using Windows until I built
> my firewall. In the end, it took less time to build a
> firewall than it took to get Windows net sharing working.


That's unuasual.  Perhaps you have a special setup, but I always found
windows networking to be fairly straightforwards.  Install drivers for
card, assign IP and DNS, reboot.

Of course, so many things can go wrong *after* you do that, but that's
another story.

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