Windows 2000 server RE: [lug] NIC Question

[Fred Robinson]

Excellent - Thanks Viggy!

Actually, it's not a dialup connection, it looks like a LAN connection.

I'll give it a go and see how it works, if not I'll go with nat32, Thanks!

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-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of LittleViggy at alum.manhattan.edu
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:42 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 server RE: [lug] NIC Question


I'm assuming that Win2k Server is similar to Win2K Workstation as far as
networking goes.

I'm not familar with Hugh's Networks Sat Modem, but if you have to setup a
"dial-up" connection (i.e. it's a PPP over Sat. connection), then you should
be
able to use Microsoft's ICS, "Internet Connection Sharing" option.  Select
the
dial-up connection in the "Network and Dial Up Connections" control panel
applet.  Right click on the dial-up connection, and bring up "Properties".
Now, select the "Sharing" tab, and turn on "Internet Connection Sharing".
If I
remember correctly, Windows will assign IP addys to *ALL* machines on your
LAN,
and wa-la, you're on line.  I briefly looked around at this feature, and it
looks like it will only work with dial-up connections, and only one dial-up
conection at a time.

Personally, I've heard mixed things about ICS.  Some people get it working
great, some don't.  Also, I'm running Win98 on one of my machines, and ICS
in
Win98 was very shoddy.  So, I went and purchased NAT32
(http://www.nat32.com).
It's a great little NAT program that runs on all Windows machines.  It's not
limited to dial-up connections, and the Plus version will support up to 8
adapters.  It even has built in packet tracing to track down problems.

Good luck on whatever route you take.

Viggy

Fred Robinson wrote:
>
> jd,
> Unfortunately I haven't found anyone to date who had info on a
driver/Linux
> Daemon to run the Hugh's Networks Satellite modem.
>
> As such I'm setting up a Windows 2000 box as the satellite
interface/gateway
> and connecting my Linux box via Ethernet for Internet connectivity.
>
> Conversely, you mentioned a NAT, I would expect the server to do DHCP with
> clients automatically?  Can anyone confirm that Windows 2000 will
> automatically do DHCP?
>
> Does anyone have experience/advice for setting up a Windows 2000 server
> (proxy actually), I've never setup this configuration before?  Should it
be
> as simple as connecting the W2K server to the Internet via the USB
satellite
> modem, and connecting the server to the network PC via ethernet, and the
> server will negotiate an IP address with the client without any
> custom/specific configuration settings on the W2K server machine or
network
> PC?
>
>  Fred Robinson
> Operator, SIPFusion
>
sipfusion

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