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Article: Sharing an Internet connection. (Linux).
- Article from:
- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
- Author:
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Do you have more than one computer but only a single Internet connection? With Internet Connection Sharing it is possible to use one Internet connection on all of your computers at once, seamlessly.
Internet Connection Sharing under Linux is known as either IP Masquerading or NAT (Network Address Translation). Setting this up is not very difficult, but it does require that you already have a working LAN set up. There is one other complexity: the 2.2.x and 2.4.x series of kernels use different tools to set up Internet Connection Sharing. In this column we will go through both methods.
The first step is to discover which series of kernel your system is ...