Topic: Telnet from the w95 boxen to outside hosts

[Daniel]

Gudday,

I love e-smith, I am trying to use it to replace wingate on a w95 gateway for my clients.

If I am using a DHCP-based dialup as the internet connection, how can I telnet to outside hosts from the clients?  Does e-smith require routable IP's for this?

Do I have to write my own script/program to allow 192.168.0 based IP clients to contact the internet using telnet on arbitrary ports?

In addition, I am such a linux newbie that I can't figure out how to make telnet on the e-smith server use arbitrary ports, & although I am familiar with PINE I don't think I'm going to persuade it to retrieve pop mail from a mailbox entirely outside my (and my ISP's) domain, meaning that with an entire LAN sitting here with ICQ, MSN (yes i know) FTP HTTP all working fine via e-smith, I can't even check my mail.....

[Daniel]

Of course, unlike wingate all internet communication works "automagically", provided you list the e-smith server as a gateway  in the TCP/IP properties on the windows clients.

Not only free but heaps more powerful, flexible and secure than wingate will ever be.  This is too easy, something's bound to go wrong sooner or later.