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Is there a way to share an internet connection on win 98 w/o ICS?

mcveigh

mcveigh

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trying to get a dozen win 98 boxes connected to the net. can i do it w/o windows ICS?
thanks,
Seth
 
Details. What type of connection? Dialup? DSL? Cable? What is your network setup? Switches? Hubs? Do you have a router?

There are numerous ways to do it without ICS, but without knowing something about your setup, it'll be pretty hard to make suitable recommendations.

Russ, NCNE
 
cool software, but what I was looking for was a way to use TCP/IP and DHCP to enable the other computers to share an internet connection. I thought I had heard it could be done. maybe i'm just nuts though?
 
Without some form of proxy (which is what Sygate is), no, it can't be done. The reason is that you have only one WAN (external) address and this has to be translated, or routed, in to multiple different LAN (internal) addresses.

TCP/IP is just a protocol that transports the packets. Unless you have some way to convert from WAN to LAN, the packets can't get out or in. DHCP is just the dynamic server that assigns the IP addresses. What you need is NAT (Network Address Translation).

Russ, NCNE
 
Yep
Throw in proxy SW, Winproxy works good too and into one of the PCs with dual NICS and it will also be your Firewall/proxy server.
Your gonna wanna go with DSL or cable whomever is better cause trying to share a dialup would be excruciatingly slow.
 
thanks for your help everyone, we are trying to get dsl but are having problems b/c of the distance from the CO. I'll probably have more questions about that soon!
Thanks again
Seth
 
Thanks alot for the info everyone1
and Hatboy thanks for that link to freesco, I will have to play with that! I also loved their links page!
 
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