Home p2p network, need help

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 15:27 -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:17:16 -0200, Leandro Melo <ltcmelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I want to share an internet connection between my computers. I don't
> > have a hub, so it's just a p2p network (just an ethernet cable).
> > The computer that hosts the connection runs Fedora and the one i want
> > to share the connection with runs windows xp.
> > Can anyone suggest a guide or tutorial for doing this? Will i have to
> > use samba for that?
> > 
> > --
> > Leandro
> > 
> 
> You are saying you want to share an INTERNET connection between the
> two. So the assumption is that you mean to connect your Fedora machine
> to the internet and want your XP machine to be able to use that
> connection. If that is the case, then you probably want to have two
> NIC cards in the Fedora machine, one for the network connection to the
> net (unless you are doing dialup) and another for a different network
> segment to the XP machine.
> 
> I would suggest googling for How-To information on NAT and IP Masquerading.

http://www.brennan.id.au/ (Linux Home Server HOWTO) is a good start and
will probably cover everything you need and much more.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>