Internet sharing with linux and win98 machines

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
13 Sep 2000 14:34:05 -0400


"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> You can run a dhcp client on the Linux box and then run an internal network
                     ^^^^^^ server?
> which would provide your Win machine with an IP address and net access. I am
> sure you could run a DHCP server for the internal use but I don't think you
> would want to.

Well, it can be useful if you have machines that move between
networks often; i.e., my friend Tim Dixon sometimes hooks up his
laptop at home and sometimes at MSU, and this way he just grabs
an IP address from DHCP either way.