On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:42:48 Syd Hancock wrote:
Although I have read that using static local IP numbers should work, I have had no success getting a Windows client to share a connection unless DHCP is enabled on the box with the modem attached. It has then been successful with Internet sharing installed in either Mandrake or Win98. (And, for that matter, using Freesco - linux-based router on a floppy).
Making the gateway a DHCP server does seem like an elegant solution though I have definitely had Win95 using a Linux gateway to a dialup internet connection in the past with static IP.
The Linux box would have been running Debian potato at the time with IP Masqerading set up as per instructions in the HOWTO I found on www.linuxdoc.org. I also had the Linux box running wwwoffle (a web proxy cache) and the standard Berkely DNS server set up in caching only mode. On the LAN side both the Linux and Win95 boxes were configured using 10.* IP addresses and the Win95 box was configured to use the Linux box for DNS and as the web proxy.
Steve.