Subj : Networking modems
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : George White
Date : Fri Aug 11 2000 01:05 am

Hi Roy,

On 09-Aug-00, Roy J. Tellason wrote to George White:

 RJT> The first two are not an option as I don't want to give that
 RJT> machine a modem, period,  or I would have by now.  W95 just has
 RJT> too many gaping security holes for me to want to do that.
 RJT> Possibly I'll get the BBS moved over to OS/2 and route things
 RJT> through there,  or if not I'll put the extra modem on the Linux
 RJT> box and tell windoze that's where the proxy server lives.  I know
 RJT> I can do browser access to that machine from either the OS/2 box
 RJT> or the w95 box,  so they're all talking to each other,  and
 RJT> TCP/IP is working the way that it should,  it's just a matter of
 RJT> redirecting the stuff that's not local out the modem port if
 RJT> there's a live connection or returning an error message if not

But are you talking about shareing a modem, or shareing an Internet
connection? They are two completely different things.

Two networked OS/2 machines can share a modem so it is useable by a
normal terminal program (Terminate, ZOC, etc.) which is what I was
talking to Dorothy about.

If you want to share an Inet connection (via a modem or any other
way), then just run INJOY on the OS/2 machine, it won't care what OS
the other machines on the network run as you are now talking TCP/IP
and that _is_ standard across all the OSs (MS have so far failed to
hijack the standard, thankfully). It will do all the necessary
masquerading to hide the network machines behind a single Inet
address.

 RJT> I may end up throwing a firewall together,  too,  we'll see.

:-). Linux is very good for that.


George

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