ICS with a Linux client?

[RichS]

Dang. I can't believe this isn't possible somehow. Does anyone know how to share an internet connection with windows xp? My windows xp box has a dsl connection. i want to use that connection from my linux box. Is this possible? if so how?

TIA

Rich

 

[Arion23]

I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly, but I am assuming that you want to access the internet on your linux PC via your Windows XP PC.

Have you set up ICS on Windows XP yet? If not, check out something like

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/

Once that is done, you should end up with a LAN IP address on your XP system, and a subnet mask.

Most of the time XP will end up set up with an IP of 192.168.0.1 and a subnet of 255.255.255.0

Set your linux PCs IP to the next number (eg 192.168.0.2) and its subnet mask to the same (eg 255.255.255.0)

Then set your linux PCs gateway to the IP address of the XP system (eg 192.168.0.1) and your DNS to whatever your ISPs DNS is.

That should be it. Apologies if this is warbled - lack of sleep and caffeine do not a cognitive person make...

 

[iwasinnamuknow]

Yes that is about fine. One other thing i would do is set up autoconfig of connection proxies on the client, as you do it in Internet Explorer.

I'm sorry but I only know how to do this on KDE interface:

Go to control centre and follow this route through the tree on the left:
-> Web Browsing
-> Proxies and Cache
Double click on this laft entry and tick the 'Use Proxies' box. Then click the Auto Configure Proxy box at the bootom.

Save and Exit and you should have conection



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