To control the router machine, you need nothing more than telnet, ssh, and a serial cable if the network goes down. You don't need both telnet and ssh, but either tool, with the appropriate server software on the router box, or whatever provision is made in dutchstein. I'd go with the 486 option as using your main box as a router may not work as good, better to have a box with that purpose only, probably better security too. At 05:45 AM 12/15/01 -0600, you wrote: >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 > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >