>Is IP-masquerading at all feasible in the case of dynamic allocation of
>the IP-address by the ISP?
Absolutely!!!! I have 4 machines here using this box as the gateway to the
'net, this box being connected to my isp on dynamic IP# assignment.
I think what you are getting at though, is having the old 486 contact the
net via your pentium & modem, in which case, you could use diald or
suchlike to attain this end, without need for someone to actually be at
the pentium to manage this bit.
It occurs to my though, you've slightly misinterpretted the ip-masq (or
networking) howto. The ISP assigned (dynamic) address is associated with
the interface (ppp0) on the host machine, and does not have aught to do
with your networking interface/s 'in house'. For example, here, the
machine that establishes the ppp link to my ISP, will have a dynamically
assign address in the range 203.55.206.70--.85, on it's ppp0 interface. It
doesn't matter what that IP# actually is, because the eth0 interface of
this machine will *always* be 192.168.1.1, the other machines being .10,
.12, .14, .17. They will always look at 192.168.1.1 for their gateway to
the 'net, it's the magic of ip_masq that takes all the grief out of
routing the packets out to the 'net...and back to the originating
machine, irrespective of what the assigned IP# given by the ISP to the
ppp0 interface is.
Hope this helps.
cheers!!
db
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