On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > Well in her case she only has two machines I think a laptop and desktop. > She could just statically assign her ips and put them in the iptable. And > use her isp for dns Yes, but Deedra may well also want to use dhcp for the learning experience. I got my first job as a systems administrator purely on the strength of the network I had run when I was sharing a flat as a student, I ran all sorts of servers for internal use, they weren't necessary, but I'm glad, from a career point of view, that I did. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html