Topic: Dial-up connection problems

[Brad Fluit]

I am having some 'issues' with e-smith as a dial-up connection to the internet.  I have a dial-up account, I enter all the info that e-smith requires, (telephone #, DNS server, etc.).  When I test the internet connection from the console, e-smith dials, connects, and reports that the connection is good.  All's well until I configure my Winblows98 boxes to use the e-smith server as a gateway and configure Internet Exploder to use the server as a proxy.  Cant get out to the internet.  Am I missing something, are there config files that I have to play with?  Can anybody point me in the right direction?  

Thanks a ton,
Brad.

[Fred Hage]

You shouldn't configure the browser to use the server as a proxy. E-smith (Squid)acts as a transparent http-proxy. If you use the e-smith box as DHCP-server, your Windows98 machine should get the IP-address of the e-smith server as gateway-address. That is all you need to connect the Windows-PC to the Internet. Check this with the (Windows) program "winipcfg" or in a DOS-box with "ipconfig". If the IP-address of the e-smith server is indeed the default gateway you should be able to connect to the internet. If you opened a DOS-window you could test this by using "ping", i.e. "ping www.e-smith.com".

Succes