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[Alfredo Cole <alfredo@xxxxxxxx>]

El lun, 17-09-2007 a las 02:44 -0400, Aaron Kulkis escribió:
> Alfredo Cole-Tuchler wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I have a Windows machine which connects to the internet using a Sony 
> > Ericsson GPRS card. The internet connection is configured as shared. 
> > Using Outlook Express I can send and receive email using my accounts 
> > as follows:
> >
> > 1. Gmail
> > 2. pop.secureserver.net port 110 and smtpout.secureserver.net port 80
> >
> > I have another box running openSUSE 10.2 that is configures to use the 
> > Windows machine as its internet gateway. I can surf the web ok, and I 
> > can send and receive mail using Evolution from the Gmail account, but 
> > not the other account. This box has no firewall in place and DNS is 
> > confiured the same as the Windows machine (an external DNS server).
> >
> > I would appreciate it if someone could point to some docs I could read 
> > to fix this problem.
> >
> > Thank you and best regards.
> >
> > -- 
> > Alfredo Cole-Tuchler
> > Tegucigalpa, Honduras
> >
> I would put the Linux machine on the direct internet connection,
> and the Windows machine should use the Linux machine as a gateway.
> 
> Personally, I don't trust Windows to behave as it is supposed to
> when dealing with any other O/S.  M$ has a long LONG reputation
> for deliberately fucking up non-MS platforms whenever they can
> get away with it (see M$'s attemp to hijack Java -- court had to
> ORDER them to rename it (now C#... yet another deliberate act
> to create confusion -- this time with C++ -- among decision-makers
> who might not be technically proficient enough to recognize the
> difference (hand written "c++" and "c#" look like they could be
> referring to the same thing).
> 
> 
> Also, a Windows machine directly connected to the internet
> without a firewall is just BEGGING for trouble.  I wouldn't
> be surprised if it's spewing spam 24 hours/day.
> 
> 

I live in a rural area, and the only way to connect to the internet is
through this wireless GPRS card. The software that drives it is
windows-only, and I could not get it to work with Linux. Some help, or a
step-by-step instruction to use under Linux would be appreciated.

Windows has a firewall in place, and I have managed to solve the problem
now by changing the value for MTU on the Linux side. Don't know why for
sure, but that did the trick. I can now surf, check and send mail, do
updates, etc.

Thank you and regards.

-- 
Alfredo Cole-Tuchler
Tel. 251-8572
Tegucigalpa

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