[lug] ppp over ethernet

[Chip Atkinson]

You set the gateway of your LAN machines to be the IP of eth0 on your 
ppp box.  Your ppp box will know to route requests to your lan, so you 
don't have to set up routing on the ppp box.  You will have to set up 
NAT (Network Address Translation) or masquerading on the ppp box since 
your ISP probably doesn't give out more than one IP per connection.

Check out the IPChains how to for masquerading.

Chip

Gary Plewes wrote:

> I have a pc with linux redhat 7.1 as a sever
> Unfortunately my only available services for an isp
> is through dialup. I can not get dsl or cable so I have
> a dialup connection. I want to be able to have my other
> computers on my ether net be able to access the internet
> via through my server through the modem. However my
> isp dynamically assigns me a new ip every time I connect.
> So I am not sure what I need to use for a default gateway,
> or do I even need to concern myself with that. Basically
> I really do not know what to do or were to start.  I was
> experimenting with with connecting with pppd but the connect
> script that uses chat to send my user name and password fails.
> Even if I get pppd to successfully connect is that it? I do not
> see how after a successful connection has been made how I will
> be able to resolve names example yahoo.com linux.com ect.. from
> other clients on the ether net. I realize that I am asking for allot
> of information and if it is easier just to point me in the right
> direction
> by either an informative web site or book I will be more than willing to
> 
> RTFM but I have not had any luck and don't really know where to
> begin.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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