George Jones wrote: > > Ok... I have a question for all of you network geniuses out there. I have > been contemplating the purchase of a switch for my home network. I have 3 > PC's that need to be connected to the internet with my cable connection. I > had thought to buy that Linksys Cable router, but I realized that I have > quite a few network cards and enough parts to build another PC (p200mmx) > and thought that maybe I could throw all of the extra NIC's into this new > box, drop Linux on it and use the machine as a proxy/router/switch. Is > something like this feasable? No problem. I'm doing this at home. The ipchains-HOWTO should answer all your questions. HTH Flupke
