Dial-Up Sharing

[acemaverick1381]

Yes, I am still one of those unlucky little bastards who still has to use dial-up. Yesterday, while over at my friends house, we got a couple more people together, and wanted to mess around with our computers. (7PCs and 1 Sun) We used one of the PCs to get the dial up connection, and ran an 85 foot CAT 5 cable to the router, which split to a wireless router. We then used the Sun to act as another server to make sure all was working right. After that, we used DHCP to assign the IP addresses to all the computers that wanted to be on the network. Since we had a wireless router, anyone with a wireless card could be using the dial up network anywhere in the house. To make things worse, we only had a 26.5 connection. Talk about slow...

Well, that was a monster load of work to get it all working, but now I want to do the same at my house, only with a faster connection, and only one other computer on the network. I want to get my ThinkPad on the internet so I can browse using Linux, and make my life easier, and I would use my Windows computer as the one to log onto the internet, then use a crossover cable to attach the two computers. I have the basics of it all down, but since I only setup the Windows server, and a couple of the clients, I can't get the Linux box to want to enable sharing. Anyone have any suggestions?

[neb1211]

Whey are you trying to enable internet connection sharing on the linux box if the windows rig is the one that is dialing up?  You only need to enable ICS on the computer that is connecting to the internet.  Then all you need to do is to setup the linux box to connect to the internet over a LAN connection.

[acemaverick1381]

Okay, I got it figured out. I was just using DHCP in Linux the wrong wag.

[Merlin]

Kool... looks like im gonna have to do this ... :-D w00t w00t

[waxon]

I didn't know you could share a dialup connection.

[acemaverick1381]

You have to use networking cables. You can't just plug dial up cables into computers. You have to have on dialup line that connects, and all the rest are networked by some high speed lines.

[waxon]

I'm impressed, I was always told it was impossible to share a dialup connection.

[Extollat Sanders]

I'm impressed, I was always told it was impossible to share a dialup connection.

*cough*

[waxon]

Wha?

[acemaverick1381]

Oh Lord.... /me *coughs* too. Lets see...Did you know a long time ago that the whole entire internet was pretty much just a big dialup network? That was the only way to acess it.

[General]

ive done this with a windows 2k server. Luckly i only had 2 computers on the network then. Now i got cable, now i want faster like t3 w00t . I need something that downloads 2gbs in like seconds.

[waxon]

I almost moved into a house that had a t1 line installed in it. To bad we didn't.

[waxon]

Oh Lord.... /me *coughs* too. Lets see...Did you know a long time ago that the whole entire internet was pretty much just a big dialup network? That was the only way to acess it.

I never thought of it that way. Good Call.

[JsutTechy]

ive done this with a windows 2k server. Luckly i only had 2 computers on the network then. Now i got cable, now i want faster like t3 w00t . I need something that downloads 2gbs in like seconds.

Well unless you got a server that wasn't bogged down with normal traffic you could probably get highspeed downloads correct? Because once in a blue moon I'll get 500kb/s downloads but usually it's 100-300.

[acemaverick1381]

You also have to take into consideration the source of where you are downloading. How much bandwidth and traffic they have at the moment.