--- Amol Gokhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just got myself a cable internet connection from
> Incable. This is how
> things work on Windows. I need to do this on Linux.
>
> When the cable modem is switched on it connects to
> the Incable servers at
> Andheri, MIDC. There it is assigned an ip address
> through DHCP through the
> server running Winnt 4.0. This ip is then assigned
> to the NIC on your
> machine & you can then start surfing the net because
> the browser
> automatically takes the settings from the Incable
> proxy. Now how do I
> replicate this on Linux.
>
> We have a hub installed for our building. We are
> going to share this cable
> modem for my building. How do I go about doing this?
>
> One way would be to install another NIC on the
> machine which is connected to
> the cable modem. Connect the NIC to the HUB. Will
> this work?
You can install linux as a proxy,the second card can
be connected to hub
Ajay
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