How do you network 2 pcs with 1 ADSL connection?

Rutnut · 05-12-2002, 12:00 PM

Hi,

My wife uses one PC with Win98/NT and I use now a seperate PC with just Linux.

We both use the computers frequently and have only one ADSL connection but what do we need to get the two connected onto the same ADSL line.

Someone told me to buy an Intel InBusiness 5 port Hub and that would solve the problem and after asking the salesman and then taking it home, setting it up and having only one light come on which is the connection from my Ethernet card to the Hub (I'm using my wife's PC) I still cannot connect to the Internet, I noticed from the very graphic setup process that it only mentions file sharing and printer sharing but no mention of Internet connection.

Have I been sold the wrong Network Hub?

And if so what should I buy?

fatgod · 05-12-2002, 12:39 PM

Hi,

You can do this quite easily, just setup the ADSL device on the linux box, connect the linux and win boxes on a network and setup masqurading on the linux box. Then you setup windows networking to use your linux box as the default gateway and presto! Internet on both boxes.

If you dont understand what the hell I'm talking about, then try to answer the following...

What kind of ADSL device do you have and what country are you in?

Can you set it up on the linux box, and get internet traffic?

Have you connected both pc's to the hub and can ping the your pc's from each other?

If you can do all this, then all you need to do is type this line into a shell on the linux box...

ipchains -A forward -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/0 -j MASQ

where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of your windows machine.

you can inprove this line by researching masqurading but this will get you up and running.

jpweston · 05-12-2002, 01:11 PM

There are some nice tutorials for Internet connection sharing here:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/

j.

esteeven · 05-12-2002, 02:09 PM

or you can try Firestarter from http://firestarter.sourceforge.net
This worked for me and a cable connection and a Win98 and an XP machine.

rcgroups1 · 05-12-2002, 07:57 PM

Easy way just buy 70 dollar linksys 5 port router which can connect directly to DSL ISP and run as DHCP also. You can connect 4 computers to internet and no need to keep all of them running just the one you need to work is enough.

Rutnut · 05-13-2002, 04:19 AM

Thanks to all who have posted, it's all working and WOW!.

Thanks for the instructions, they looked difficult but after a careful read it seemed to make sense, again thanks for that.

Thanks for the info on the internet tutorials.

The firestarter is a pretty interesting read and will install and dive into that within the week.

Well the hub seems to be working fine and all are happy touch wood.

Again thanks to everyone who lent me their advice.

Regards