Hi all! I now have two computers up with debian linux--my own, and one I am fixing up for friends and training them on before they take it home. I hope that training people and thus having the two people will become a regular state of affairs. My own computer is on Charter cable with a Motorola surfboard 1000 cable modem and a 3com509 card. The other computer I am working on has an ethernet card, a compaq intellignt that runs under the thunderland driver; I have it recognized but it isn't hooked up at this point. I would like to be able to network the two computers, as I am having to use ppp on the extra computer. I have a friend who is helping me to look into the networking possibilities. It seems that I have at least two options here. I could have my main computer double as a router, or I could fix up an old 486 as a router and network it with the other two computers. If I go the route of the 486, my friend has something through the Linux router Project (lrp)--he says that what he has is called duchstein--which he would put on the 486. My questions are: Can anybody tell me the advantages/disadvantages of setting up with a separate machine as router vs. uysing my main linux box? Once it is up and running, if I use a 486 as a router, will I need a speech synthesizer or brltty on it and on the other two computers? Are there other ways to do this that I am overlooking? Thanks. Cheryl