hi every body..I have a laptop on which i connect to internet using dialup modem.my laptop is also connected to a linux box via lan.now i want to connect to internet from the linux box, using internet connnection sharing from widows xp installed on laptop.how to do this please help..

thanks in advance
pdwivedi

in XP activate internetsharing.
on linux, set the Lan IP from the XP computer as the default GW
Add the DNS info in /etc/resolv.conf

thanks for your quick reply
but i am still unable to do it
in win xp i have following ip

for dialup i have
PPP adapter Airtel GPRS:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 117.96.40.67
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 117.96.40.67

and for ethernet adapter

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.202.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

while on linux box i have following ip
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:F4:9E:1D
inet addr:192.168.202.128 Bcast:192.168.202.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fef4:9e1d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:602 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:48307 (47.1 KiB) TX bytes:72900 (71.1 KiB)
Interrupt:67 Base address:0x2000



now how to go from here please help..

regards

in linux:
as root:

then try
if that works, try
if that works try

marvelous....thanks a lot... .you are a genius!!!
It did work.I will be more obliged if u can explain the steps and also that what the file resolve.conf does
thanks again
:-)
pdwivedi

one more problem that i can't open the websites by thier u.r.l however it does perfectly well with ip addresses.

regards
pdwivedi

Then there is a problem with DNS
Put the DNS (name servers)from your provider in
/etc/resolv.conf




means, all trafic will go true 192.168.202.1 (the windows laptop)

/etc/resolv.conf => it contains the nameservers, in order to resolve
ip's
you type www.google.com, the nameserver will lookup the ip

Don't know wich distribution you use, but a good idea would be to put all this info in
networkmanager or wicd or whatever you use to make a connection.

if you go to the dos prompt on the Windows machine and do:
You should see the ip addresses of the name servers that you need to put into the resolv.conf