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In the near future, I will be running RedHat 5.0 on a Pentium system with
a static IP cable modem connection.  I want to know if it is possible to
network a Windows 95 box to it and be able to perform the following
goals.  Could I use applications that require an IP such as ICQ or DCC
connections with my IRC client using the Linux machine as a proxy server?  
If so, how would I go about doing that?  Would I have two separate
networks (linux to Internet / linux to 95) or would I just set all my
Internet apps on the 95 machine to use the Linux box as a proxy?  Please
pardon my vernacular; I have an idea what I need to do but haven't
acquired significant proficiency in the vocabulary.
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Hi Matthew,

This is a doddle with Linux.  Look at the firewalling facilities (options
in kernel and ipfwadm).  You will need masquarading turned on, and then set
up firewall rules to forward specific ports (e.g. DCC and ICQ ports) to the
win95 machine.

To connect the two machines, look at buying a couple of cheap network cards
(either thin eithernet, or using UTP and a crossover lead).

Gary

        10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
        172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
        192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

With IP masquerading, all internet traffic originatng in your local
network
will look as if it were originating at your Linux masquerade server.

Some processes, however, are not complient with masquerade, but most
common applications can be masqueraded.

- Steve Hathaway

I am in the process of doing the _same_ thing.  Check out the NET-3 HowTo.

There are a couple of approaches I have found, and they all involve using the
LINUX box as a router, routing the static ip traffic externally to your
reserved ip addressed network internally.  You can use IP Masquerading, the TIS
Firewall Toolkit,etc.

THere are modules that exist with IP Masquerading that enable you to IRC, FTP,
etc, but I am not sure on ICQ.

Just read the HowTo's it's all in there.

Hmmmm... IRC... ICQ... DCC... CABLE MODEM!  Sounds like u r into warez!

Peace.

says...

Not really.  Just trying to do my own ISP services.  But since I only
have one IP, gotta do that and do my regular net functions on that.  I
want to run Apache, Sendmail and such on the Linux box, but still be able
to chat, browse, and such on the Winbox until I get more comfortable with
X Windows and other Linux apps.

[snip]

hmm, why don't you enable masquerading/ip forwarding on your linux
box. that way you will be able to have people connect on your linux
system which will have that static IP and still are able to do icq/irc
using masquerading

Quote:>> >In the near future, I will be running RedHat 5.0 on a Pentium system with
>> >a static IP cable modem connection.  I want to know if it is possible to
>> >network a Windows 95 box to it and be able to perform the following
>> >goals.  Could I use applications that require an IP such as ICQ or DCC
>> >connections with my IRC client using the Linux machine as a proxy server?  
>> >If so, how would I go about doing that?  Would I have two separate
>> >networks (linux to Internet / linux to 95) or would I just set all my
>> >Internet apps on the 95 machine to use the Linux box as a proxy?  Please
>> >pardon my vernacular; I have an idea what I need to do but haven't
>> >acquired significant proficiency in the vocabulary.