Ineternet Connection Configuration

jperensky · 09-27-2002, 04:56 PM

Unfortunately I can't get my modem (dial-up) to work under Red Hat (no drivers) so I installed WinProxy on one of my Windows boxes and am proxying the connection. The only problem is I cant figure out how to get my Red Hat system to use and accept that connection. I do have a working internal network (with ethernet NICs) and am able to route external server ports to my Red Hat machine but I can't use anything like ftp, ssh or wget from my linux machine.

Can anyone give me any tips?

acid_kewpie · 09-27-2002, 05:01 PM

i would simply recommend a different program. I *think* it's possible to do everything with a proxy, but it's so much nicer to just use a software router instead. While obviously it'd be preferable to do that under *nix, try something such as winroute. I used to use that when i had no other choice.

Bert · 09-27-2002, 05:02 PM

You have an 'internal network'. How doe sit access the Internet? Is it via a router? A switch?

Can I guess that your'e sharing a broadband connection using network address translation via a router?

What is the chipset of your dialup modem? I have not yet seen a dialup modem which is not supported (they exist but are rare these days).

Give us more details, please.

Bert

jperensky · 09-27-2002, 05:13 PM

Once I have a software router how do I configure Red Hat to accept the connection?

My network right now is over a crossover cable but I have a hub just havn't gotten around to networking computers in other rooms. If I am not mistaken, wont the configuration be the same for a crossover or a cat5e (hub)?

I am using an HSF dial-up modem. Most of the HSFs are supported under linux but there are a couple that arn't and guess who has one that isn't!

acid_kewpie · 09-27-2002, 05:18 PM

you would just set your gateway to the ip of the routing machine, with netconfig or whatever else you wish to use

Bert · 09-27-2002, 05:31 PM

You're default gateway is probably 192.168.0.1 which is the NAT address of your router - if you are connecting via a router ... ?

Tell all of your p2p stuff ports to look there first.

Otherwise, the interface configuration

ifconfig -a

should automatically detect the gateway (none of this winipcfg /release-all rubbish).

If you have problems still, can you tell us exactly how you've set things up?

Bert