"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
>
> OK, just for grins. Firewalling aside, I have a DSL connection to one
> machine with 2 NIC's. One (eth0) goes to the DSL modem the other (eth1
> aka 192.168.100.1) goes to a hub. A second machine with single NIC
> (eth0 aka 192.168.100.2) goes to same hub. Can I simply assign the
> gateway on machine #2 to the second NIC on machine #1 (eth1 -
> 192.168.100.2)?
Yes you can (and should) but the gateway is 192.168.100.1
if you assign 192.168.100.2, you are just gatewaying your
second machine onto itself ...
OTOH it may be a typo in your post, in that case forget it ...
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Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
