[PLUG] Internet sharing Mandrake 10.0 to 98SE

Brock Woolf ultima160 at iinet.net.au
Mon May 31 14:38:57 WST 2004


> I finally got my internet connected through my ISDN modem but now I have a 
> small problem. I have run the "Internet Connection Setup" in Mandrake but 
> for some reason it will not allow my 98se machine access to the net.

Could be 2 problems, firstly make sure the Linux Server's firewall isn't
blocking the port for ICS,

> Do I have to do anything special on the 98se machine to make it do this? I 
> had to run a program on it to get through the internet via XP (my server). 
> I have tried everything I can think of in my very limited knowledge.

The only thing you'll have to do on the Windows machine is make sure it
is getting it's IP address from a "DHCP server" make sure you have not
specified an IP address.

> Any help would be appreciated. - preferably in newbie language :)
> 
> 
> Lee




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