thanous on Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:27:19 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] WAYYYY Off topic.... RE Windows 2k server and NAT and something of Linux Auth


>On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:24:50AM -0500, thanous@dca.net wrote:
>> From: thanous@dca.net
>> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:24:50 est
>> Subject: [PLUG] WAYYYY Off topic.... RE Windows 2k server and NAT and something
of Linux Auth
>> 
>> If you dont know anything about this, please just dont respond lol
>> 
>> I need a hand, I configured NAT to assign IP address to the machines on my
network
>> on the subnet of...
>> 
>> 203.203.203.x
>> 
>> So they can still access a linux machine WHICH they need for accounting softwear,

>> file sharing, and printing.  The linux machine WAS the internet connection
until
>> Comcast fucked up the stuff...  I would perfer to use linux again as the
internet
>> connection but I dont see it happening anytime soon.  
>
>If you are refering to the Static to DHCP / IP change over that has occured
recently
>then all yo needed to do was acquire an updated DHCP client package for your
linux gateway
>which would have correctly probed Comcast's DHCP server for your new IP.
>
>Please look through the PLUG list archives to see what was discussed in
>subjects entitled: [PLUG] dhcp and comcast 
>
>http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/pubarchive/plug/

If you NOTICE who started that, I think it was me.

In any event, I posted on that thread a few times, and I have not been able
to use Pump, or any of the default DCHP clients that come with linux.  If I
was able to get one of them to work, I would not be using or TRYING to use NAT.
 Configuring Win2k is a nightmare... and even when its working, there is no
ganturee that it will remain working.  

>
>
>> Does anyone know how to make NAT work or have any experience with it?  I
have
>> read all the documation I can find online, and I got it working, BUT it doesnt

>> feed a network connection and I cant figure out why.  It assigns the IP fine,

>> so the client machine can access the Linux machine fine, but it will not
allow
>> a Internet connection to go through.  
>> 
>> I did try ICS, and it DOES work, but I cant get a ICS machine to access the

>> linux machine either.  So maybe I am doing something wrong on the linux side?

>>  We use facetwin (www.facetcorp.com) to build a termial connection to the
accounting
>> softwear.  I tried to see if there is anything in there that would lead me
to
>> believe that having a faulty IP address (ie one that is not within the given

>> parameters) would disallow access.  No. 
>> 
>> Not sure, but I really dont want the Winblows 2k server to be the only machine

>> that has access to the net, but I have been beating my head against the wall

>> for the last week tryin to figure this out, and nothing.
>> 
>> Any advice?  :)
>
>Yes, don't use windows...

Geee thanks... how much "time" did it take you to come up with that?
>
>> 
>> Later
>> 
>> Anthony
>> 
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