On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 13:23 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 30 May 2005 13:16, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > > > I haven't got something quite right yet -will try again tomorrow. Or > > maybe buy a router! > > Wait for advice from others with wider experience. I don't think a router is > possible for you. > > If you have your modem already working on one box, it should really only be a > matter of configuring the sharing via the wizard. I'd have another try at > that, assuming that the Mandriva box is the one with the modem. > > Anne I agree with Anne, here, the wizard may be all you need. I would make a suggestion, if you have a gig or so of hard drive space some where (/tmp is good) install, run and learn how to configure (with webmin) a program called squid. it is a caching server. with it on the local lan, things that you have in lots of web pages get stored locally, so you don't have to pull all the data down from websites like yahoo or hotmail, instead of getting the whole gif that says 'hotmail' every time, it just checks the file to see if it has changed, if if it's the same file that it pulled down before, it will server up a local copy. this speeds up a shared dial-up. I also would suggest a quick look at 'man pppd' since you will want to learn how to get your modem to dial up automagically when someone on the lan requests a web page, adn also how to have it hang up if no one is using the internet for a while...
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