Hi, I have a windows XP box that is connected to the internet via a cable modem attached by ethernet into my NIC.

I have a laptop running linux which I would like to share the internet connection of the windows XP machine.

The problem is that the only common ports are serial ports. I have a cable which I currently use to link the 2 machines to send files using Hyper Terminal and minicom.

I need some method of getting internet connection sharing over the serial cable to linux. Windows will be the host, linux the guest.

I have read about ppp but from what I saw I couldn't figure out a connection over a null modem cable, especially between windows and linux. Most of what I found for it was to do with dialing in using a modem.

So then I heard of SLIP, this sounded perfect but I was told by a friend that windows can not be a host for SLIP but can just connect to a linux slip server which is the wrong way arround for me.

why not reverse it, let linux be the server and windows the client

Doesn't the windows machine have to be the server since it has the internet connection?

windows won't pretend to be a router
Linux will

ehd