On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Guy Abandon. wrote: > ... The other thing you might want to invest > in, though may not be necessary, is one of the > router-hubs. If you're the only one there to > use the connection, you should be able to skip > this. But if you want a Win and Linux machines > to share,... A much better route, and likely cheaper (a second ethernet card in the linux box is needed), would be to use the linux box as a gateway, router, and firewall to the M$ box, thereby greatly increasing it's pathetic "security". This involves masquerading, (aka, NAT): there is a HOWTO on that. Or use one of the floppy based router/firewall distributions on that "old 486 buried in the closet" to protect both other boxes even better. LCR -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list