Does a hub do the trick? I always thought I needed the two cards as I likely will use more than one machine with it. I was thinking of getting a new machine with linux already on it, to use it as the gateway as well as running whatever I want to run all the time. At 11:03 PM 9/10/00 +1100, you wrote: >Hi: > >Nah your computer has the IP, as far as I know. The router presumably >makes sure traffic destined for you goes to you and stuff that isn't >doesn't (DSL owners may well know more about this). If you have a network >then you'd need 2 cards in your gateway box, one for your LAN and one for >the DSL. > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> >ICQ number 43634701 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >