WINS and Linux NAT was: [thelist] Networking: Localhost AND the net?

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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On a sidenote, can anyone help me with my cable modem network
hassle:

My cablemodem provider (http://www.blueyonder.co.uk) have sensibly
provided an ethernet connection to the modem box. Nice one.

However, they've locked it down to connecting to a single MAC address
(you can provide them with 2 or 3, but it can only use one at a time). This
is OK I'm thinking, I've an old box I can set up as a network proxy/router
with NAT on Linux thanks to http://www.netmax.com/

One wee problem though, the modem is set up such that you need to
use WINS to discover the address for the DHCP server in it.

Result: It seems that you can only connect a single Windows box to
the spiffy 512k bandwidth. Which is a bit of a bugger as I have 2
windows machines and a Mac I want to have connected at the
same time (and not have the hassle of swapping the connection
about).

Any ideas?

Cheers
Martin

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