This is just a little FYI... There is a Linux distribution that will boot from a floppy and will allow you to share an internet connection with however many computers.
It also has a built in firewall. There is absolutely no configuration if you have a supported network card. If you don't it's not that difficult to change it. You can send and receive e-mail through it and it provides proxy services to the users behind the firewall. We tested the firewall at grc.com and all ports were either closed or stealth. There is some conflict about the hardware requirements since one site claims that you can use a 486 with 12 MB of RAM, however it was suggested (strongly) that a Pentium 100 with 16 MB RAM (or better) be used. It was pretty much a no-brainer to get it up and running. The only problem we had was our own stupidity of not putting the DNS server IP addresses in our network configuration for each workstation that was to utilize the connection. We knew this was the problem since we could ping to any IP out on the net but we couldn't ping to a URL. And if that's not enough to get you interested.... the price is rather attractive. It's FREE. Scott ==== Scott J. Salisbury Matrix Data Systems / The R:Street Journal 5114 Point Fosdick Drive NW, Suite E-272 Gig Harbor, WA 98335-1733 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.MatrixDataSystems.Com http://www.SeaNet.Com/~sjs Direct Line: 206-423-7679 Toll Free: 888-386-5040 Seattle: 206-448-7975 Tacoma: 253-444-5166 Fax: 305-425-0491 ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
