I'm no networking expert and don't know if this is possible, so any help and tips are welcome... Here is the situation: I have this set-top box for cable-tv at home that is connected to a 100mbps network. This network is connected to the internet, and plugging in a laptop instead gives me full (NAT'ed) 100mbps access to the internet(!). The problem is that the DHCP server only gives me 1 ip-address, so I'm looking for a solution where I can have both my laptop (or better, a subnet) and the set-top box online on the same time. Available hardware: 1 Linux PC w/2 network cards 1 switch (I will invest in the nessesary hardware if that's what it takes) I've tried using this hardware to make a NAT'ed subnet (with DHCP server). This works fine for the laptop (i'm using it now :), but the set-top box complains about no connection to server. The set-top box is WinXP based, and looking at the traffic at boot-time I see a lot of netbios packets. I've tried to set up forwarding, but that does not seem to help. Testing different configurations takes a hell lot of time since I have to reboot the set-top box everytime, that's why I'm trying this message. Don't know anything about the MS protocols, and a little searching tells me that NAT'ing this does not work? So, is there some way I can watch TV and be online with my computer(s) at the same time? The set-top box only needs access to a 10.x.x.x net (I think), so my thought was that a configuration that sets up a bridge from that net to the set-top box but still has a NAT'ed subnet maybe will work. Is this possible? Help! ;) -Terje
