Modem Sharing
Posts: 3
Hello everyone,
I have a three computers networked together. They are:
1. PIII 800MHz, running Mepis, with a USB printer and a dial-up Netcomm modem;
2. P4-M Dell Inspiron laptop, dual booting with Windows XP Home SP2 and Mepis; and
3. P4 laptop with Windows XP Home SP2.
The PIII connects to a Netgear WGU624 Router via CAT5 cable, and the two laptops are connected wirelessly. The WGU624 acts as the DHCP Server (and therefore has the IP address on the network of 192.168.1.1).
All three computers are able to access the printer, and access shared folders on each other. However, I am unable to determine how to share the modem on the Mepis computer with the other two computers. All three computers can use their own dial-up modems to connect to the internet, but I just can't work out how to share the Mepis computer's modem. I don't have broadband yet so I need to use dial-up until broadband becomes available.
If anyone can provide me with the step-by-step procedure to enable the sharing of the Mepis computer's dial-up modem, I would be very grateful.
Thanks,
ER
Follow up
Posts: 18
OK, I sat down and tried to get Guidedog and Guarddog to work again, no luck. OK, I am no genius but I do work with firewalls for a living so I know a little about whats going on 
Guarddog and Guidedog are just way too complex for the average user, no home users needs this level of complexity. So, second time for me to run up Mepis in connection sharing mode, second time to uninstall Guarddog Install Firestarter and I have a shared connection working within 1 minute.
Lastly, I cannot see anywhere where you can Guidedog which interface is which ??? It seems to assume that you are going to have one interface with a public address and one with a private address, sorry but this is not always the case, certainly is not in my case and I can think of many others.
Cheers
Phill
Modem Sharing
Posts: 3
Ok, just to prove my lack of knowledge regarding Linux, how do I uninstall Guarddog, and how do I install Firestarter? I have downloaded the latest release of the Debian version (i386 for a PIII I presume?), but I don't know what else to do...
Can I leave all computers to receive a network address from the router, or does the Linux computer with the shared modem need to have the 192.168.1.1 address?
Thanks for your patience,
ER
Sharing a connection
Posts: 18
I had to do something similar, what I ended up doing was uninstalling Guarddog (the firewall installed with Mepis) and installing Firestarter, which has a very simple setup, ie define the local network interface, the internet connected interface, what you want to allow in (if anything) and everything is allowed out by default, for what I wanted this worked perfectly.
However ... please see what a few more people say, I am going to try Guarddog again, but to enable connection sharing with Guraddog you have to install Guidedog, Guarddog cannot route on it's own.
http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidedog/
HTH
Cheers
Phill