At 10:55 AM 1/2/01 +0700, Shanmuga Raj wrote:
>>Does anyone know of a free program for windows that
>>will allow it to serve as a proxy server for a linux client?
>If you are running NT 4 server, try MS Proxy 2.0. Or you may try RRAS, I
>heard it has some features fo Internet sharing, but not sure.
This is off topic, you know.
I don't think that MS Proxy-Server is free.
RRAS, although it does do dial-up networking and can function as a gateway,
it cannot function as an internet proxy server, because, I think it doesn't
do masquerading. It should work fine if you have multiple static IPs
assigned to your account, though. (I can't remember exactly why, but I
spent the better part of a day 12 months ago trying to find out why, and
ended up calling MS only to learn that my efforts were futile.) MS's RRAS
documentation is misleading in this regard, too, as they use private IPs in
an internet example in the RRAS manual.
AFAIK, there is no truly and legally free option on NT Server/Workstation
or Windows 95/Windows 98 (1st ed). MS Plus! had an internet connection
sharing option that would work for Win95/98, but Plus! wasn't free.
However, Windows98SE/ME and 2000 Server/Workstation all have an internet
connection sharing feature that works (to some degree). By all means,
however, I believe that a Linux box with ipchains is a much better tool for
this.
I've never used a linux box as a client to a Windows internet connection
sharing server, but I can't see why it wouldn't work.
Lee Howard
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