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...
Righto - I am the only person using both boxes, so no problems with
automatic dialling up or connecting. If I am dialled up on one box and
use KVM switch to go to other box then I'll need to disconnect and
reconnect? Okay _ next days off I'll look at squid. I think it was
installed when I attempted to get network going. I don't use hotmail or
yahoo, but daresay there's other stuff that applies.
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