If you are being really cheap and don't need anything else besides
routing, go to www.freesco.org. One floppy, setup done in less than 10
minutes (to be fair, I've done it a few times), and you are done.
Monte
flupke wrote:
>
> 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
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