- Jun 24, 2001
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I don't know much about networking yet (Taking a networking specialist course though, just can't wait to get to this stuff), but I'd love to get a little support from you Anandtechers!
The situation is:
I have a cable modem.
My friend has a cable modem.
My cable company lets me lease multiple IPs for multiple PCs with a simple hub.
His uses NAT and puts all their users behind a firewall. I can't connect directly to him for virtually anything (Games, file transfers, messaging, nothing works)
His cable co charges $10 a month for a VPN account that gives him an "outside" IP address.
Because he only needs it for situations when he's having trouble connecting with people, I wish to offer him this service for free.
I also wish to use it myself when I am at work or other places when proxy servers filter web sites I need.
I have 4 network cards in my WinXP Pro machine at home, and all four were able to obtain an IP through my plain old hub connected to the cable modem.
I used XP Networking's New Connection Wizard ("Set up an advanced connection" then "Accept incoming connections" then "Allow Virtual Private Connections")
I noticed in the MMC that it enabled the RRAS service (I really don't know what I'm talking about, but it may be relevant)
Using the account I set up in the wizard, I verified that I could log-on from a Win98 machine (Though web browsing and audio streaming and such stopped working while I was).
Now I'm on to the next step: How do I route one of the IPs to the VPN client so it has a connection to the Internet through me?
This is where networking really confuses me, but if his cable co can do it, I'd like to
Thnx ppl!
BTW, my friend connected to me too but his web browsing cut off too and he couldn't see any workgroups (Configuration issue on his end I assume).
The situation is:
I have a cable modem.
My friend has a cable modem.
My cable company lets me lease multiple IPs for multiple PCs with a simple hub.
His uses NAT and puts all their users behind a firewall. I can't connect directly to him for virtually anything (Games, file transfers, messaging, nothing works)
His cable co charges $10 a month for a VPN account that gives him an "outside" IP address.
Because he only needs it for situations when he's having trouble connecting with people, I wish to offer him this service for free.
I also wish to use it myself when I am at work or other places when proxy servers filter web sites I need.
I have 4 network cards in my WinXP Pro machine at home, and all four were able to obtain an IP through my plain old hub connected to the cable modem.
I used XP Networking's New Connection Wizard ("Set up an advanced connection" then "Accept incoming connections" then "Allow Virtual Private Connections")
I noticed in the MMC that it enabled the RRAS service (I really don't know what I'm talking about, but it may be relevant)
Using the account I set up in the wizard, I verified that I could log-on from a Win98 machine (Though web browsing and audio streaming and such stopped working while I was).
Now I'm on to the next step: How do I route one of the IPs to the VPN client so it has a connection to the Internet through me?
This is where networking really confuses me, but if his cable co can do it, I'd like to
Thnx ppl!BTW, my friend connected to me too but his web browsing cut off too and he couldn't see any workgroups (Configuration issue on his end I assume).
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