Windows/Linux network

[Tim Wunder]

The answer is...
Use linux as the gateway/firewall and screw XP server.
In fact, install linux on all your PC's and screw MS altogether.
No... really... if this is a home network, I recommend using linux for 
everything. 

Good luck, 
Tim


On Wednesday 15 May 2002 06:25 pm, Randy Donohoe wrote:
> It was, and I did try removing it. I installed Zone Alarm on the chance
> it was a fault in XP's firewall.
> Thanks,
> Randy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wil McGilvery" <wmcgilvery at lynch.ca>
> To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:03 PM
> Subject: RE: Windows/Linux network
>
> > Is the built in XP firewall up and running on the NIC connected to the
>
> Internet?
>
> > If it is, have you tried removing it?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Wil McGilvery
> > Manager, Digital Media
> >
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Randy Donohoe [mailto:radono1 at bellsouth.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:45 PM
> > To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> > Subject: Windows/Linux network
> >
> > This is probably a Windows issue, so be forewarned. I have DSL coming
> > into a single-port modem. A Cat 5 patch cable connects it to a Linksys
>
> 5
>
> > port switch. A Windows XP box acts as the server using Internet
> > Connection Sharing. Downline is two more XP boxes and a Mandrake 8.2
> > box. The problem is I can pull any URL on the XP server box and the
> > Mandrake box, but can only pull some URL's on the other two XP boxes.
>
> I
>
> > can ping or trace route any URL on these two, put can't pull the page
> > with  Explorer. So far all the ones I can't pull seem to have some
>
> type
>
> > of security features. It isn't a DNS caching issue, done checked that.
> > Could it be anything on the Mandrake box? I know it seems kind of far
> > fetched, but I'm running out of options.
> > Thanks,
> > Randy Donohoe
> >
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