Configure Proxy In RH7.2

[firebear88]

I have a redhat 7.2 box with no modem but it does have a networking card.

Anyways i need a way to get the RH box to connect into my windows98 (HP Laptop) and beable to get to the net from there. Im a complete novice at this so i really need step by step easy to understand help :).

ThankYou,
-DustinE

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Assumption: You have Internet connection sharing running on the Windows 98 box, and its connected to the Internet

On the Red Hat box

cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Edit

vi ifcfg-eth0

Make it look like this.

DEVICE='eth0'
BOOTPROTO='none'
IPADDR='192.168.0.10'
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
ONBOOT='yes'
GATEWAY='192.168.0.1'
TYPE='Ethernet'
USERCTL='no'
NETWORK='192.168.0.0'

Leave alone anything else in this file such as hardware address and such. Make sure the IP addresses are conistent however

The key thing is the Gateway. That must be the same as the IP address of the Win98 box which can be optained by the command ipconfig in a dox box.

Now, save the file.

service network restart

ifconfig

What shows on this display should match your file, otherwise look for typos.

You're done.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

I have assumed you set up your laptop with Windows 98 Internet connection sharing. This includes a dhcp server, which I know defaults to a 192. network.

If you run into specfic problems, please post your error message and me or someone else will help.

Since you are new, please encourage me and others to help you by assigning points to answers.

Thanks.

Steve

[Balaji N]

hi,

if you have a proxy server running on your windows box, you can configure your browser to use that for internet browsing.

fire your browser and look for proxy settings in preferences / settings menu as appropriate.
-balaji

[firebear88]

Thank You Both. Its now working and i have been surfing the web with my newly configured RH box! :)

So how do i give people points?