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echo: os2lan
to: CHARLES GAEFKE
from: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD
date: 1997-09-15 16:57:00
subject: TCP/IP network

 CG> What'd I'd like to do is use my network as a TCP/IP network so
 CG> that the other PC can go through the network to access my computer,
 CG> as if it was on the InterNet, and also reach the InterNet through my
 CG> PC.
You can do this two ways.
Firstly, the easy way:  If you have enough IP addresses, you assign one IP 
address to your SLIP/PPP/whatever connection, and one IP address each to the 
LAN cards on each of your PCs.  You then merely need to tell the PC with the 
LAN card and SLIP/PPP/whatever connection to perform IP routing.  I believe 
that there is a checkbox for this on one of the TCP/IP configuration notebook 
pages.
Secondly, the harder way:  If you don't have enough IP addresses, or your ISP 
uses dynamic IP assignment, you need to set up an internal TCP/IP LAN between 
your PCs, using (preferably reserved) internal IP addresses, and then 
configure the PC with the SLIP/PPP connection to use IP masquerading using a 
utility such as InJoy in order to hide the IP addresses of the other PC from 
the outside world.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
--- FleetStreet 1.19 NR
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