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Private Lan to Dialup Internet Access!

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by whatme?

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I made a small network with 5 computers all running win98. I gave each a static IP# starting at 192.168.0.2 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. All seems to be well but I would like one computer to dial up on demand to the ISP.. # 199.x.x.x.
I havean active dial up connection on 192.168.0.2. Even if I can't find a software package to "dialup on demand" from the other computers on the network, How can I get this 1st computer to act as a "router" to Internet so that when the others click on Internet it or they goes online.

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Merv
mervt@arctic.ca

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by gateway_tech

There are a number of software packages out there that will do this for you. The least expensive of these is Windows 98 Second Edition. It has a component called internet connection sharing. Although there is some question as to whether or not the autodial will work with client machines that have dissimular operating systems. I have seen many others, Wingate, Sygate, Ishare, and one in particular that I believe would definitely autodial for you by the name of Midpoint Gateway. Also if you dont mind going to a beefier operating system. Windows 2000 professional has a very nice internet connection sharing package that will autodial and work well down the line with win98 and win95.

by whatme?

That may be part of the answer or solution but the main problem I have is I can't get the other stations to get onto the Internet. If I set the default gateway to the first machine, I would have thought I should be able to log onto the Internet when the first machine is already on the Internet.

Merv

by whatme?

May only help part of my problem The rest is probably only a configuration problem but I don't know how to solve it.
Merv

by milesrrs

you dont just need to set the default gateway.....you also need to set the dns on each client to the ip address of your 'server' or the ics machine....it will then auto dial the default internet connection when the client machines access the internet icon.......keep in mind that ics in win98 se also acts as a dhcp server!!!

by shmaltz

answer 1 has the answer use win98SE internet connection sharing and install it on the gateway computer after you installed it on the gateway computer go to the others and make sure that they have all TCP/IP settings empty so it gets it from the gateway computer.
The other way is goto http://www.sambar.com and download thier software which will allow you to set up your win9x machine as a Proxy server, that way you can have your computers connect to the internet by entering the proxy settings intheir browser (in your cas the proxy server will be 192.168.0.2).

by whatme?

I guess I should have given the points to #1 but I couldn't get by the expalnation until after the rest of the answers.
Got it now. Everything seems to be working OK

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