Re: Connecting to Ethernet

[gtolar@ziplink.net (Glynne Tolar)]

In article <56qh12$i9o@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn) wrote:
>Offhand, it sounds like a little tiny box that turns ethertalk packets
>into localtalk packets.
>
>Personally, I recommend spending a few bucks on a 386 with an ethernet card
>and running linux on it.  Run dip on one of the serial ports, and voila...
>an ethernet connection that gives you IP.  only problem is that you need to
>get 2 IP numbers secured for yourself (one for the 386, one for the gs).
>This could be avoided (only get one IP number) by running something
>like slirp (sorry, unfamiliar with slirp's details.  my understanding
>is that it "extends" the host computer's IP number, acting vaguely
>like a proxy server that translates into serial connection?)
>
>anyway.

Linux offers IP masquerading.  That will do what you are saying.  Also a proxy
server can offer services (WWW, FTP, etc) as if they all came from the same
machine.