Harkins,Patrick wrote: >I want to set up my home network with Internet Connection Sharing for three >machines and a cable connection. The "gateway" machine is a Windows 2000 >Professional machine. There's also a Win 98 box and an XP box. > >I did this once before with different machines but have forgotten some of >the details. I guess I need two network cards on the connected box. I am >totally confused at this point so won't even try to explain my limited >understanding. Can anyone tell me how to do this? In easy point form :-)
You can go the easy way, the broken way and the hard way. The easy way is to buy a router. The broken way is to set it up with 2 NICs and ICS on Windows 2000. The hard way is to set it up with 2 NICs and install OpenBSD as the router. The advantage of the hard way is that it gives you a lot of security, and additional capabilities such as the option to rate-limit traffic over certain ports (like P2P) and to prioritize traffic over other ports (like mail). You can also quite easily log in to your home network from anywhere, and you can even securely tunnel your Windows Networking over the internet to your buddy/the office. But it is the hard way :-) Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
