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You almost have it. Two things: First, some magic has to happen to allow both machines to share a single IP address. Recent Windows calls it Connection Sharing, IIRC, and in Linux circles it's called NAT (Network address translation) or IP Masquerading. So you will need some sort of device, either a computer or a network device plugged in between your LAN and the Internet to perform NAT. The *simplest* solution is to but a cheap network device. My Linksys device cost about $120, IIRC, and has a 4-port dual speed hub, acts as a wireless access point, runs a DHCP server, is a DHCP client, and has a pretty good web-based interface for configuration. A linux box could easily do NAT and the DHCP stuff. I did this usng RH for a long time, then replaced it with a LEAF (Linux router; leaf.sourceforge.net) box, then bought the Linksys box for the wireless access. DHCP, in case you're not familiar, relieves you from having to manually assign static internal network addresses... not a big deal for two computers but a nice feature sometimes. My laptop appreciates it, for example. Why do you have a static IP? If you expect any in-bound traffic (e.g., you want to "host" games like Unreal Tournament or you're running a web- or mail server) then it will be important to be able to expose internal ports externally. The LEAF Linux distribution and the Linksys (and surely other dedicated devices/distros) have special ways to make this easy. I would say that the Linksys device is much simpler to configure but far more limited than the LEAF distro. Second, maybe this is just semantics, but you do not need a proxy server. (did you mean connection sharing?) A proxy catches web requests and checks to see if it already has the page in its cache. This will speed up web access in some situations enormously but I've never thought the it was worthwhile for one or two people. If the Windows is one of the old DOS flavors, forget it. If it's a choice between a Windows NT flavor and Linux/Samba then it's more of a toss, up. I'd see which has been driver support. Support in RH 9 seems very good, click-click-click and I've set up printers that I could never make work properly using earlier versions. Linux will be more reliable than WIndows, IMHO. -Alan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 8/2/2003 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: Comcast & Routing I will soon have a similar situation... I have two computers at home. One is the one I'm using now which is currently dual boot RH9/Windows 98. It's connected to the Internet via cable modem (RCA) and has a static IP address. What I would like to do is install RH9 on a second computer, have a private LAN with the two machines, so that files/printers can be shared. I would also like them to share my Internet connection without having to obtain a second static IP address from my ISP. I am not a network guru by any means, so I've been reading up on the subject, and it seems there are several different ways this could be done. What I am thinking would be the simplest way is this: 1) Establish the LAN using private IP addresses and a hub. 2) Connect the hub to the cable modem. 3) Connect to the Internet directly from the Linux box, then configure the Windoze box to use the Linux box as a proxy server so I can surf the web from the Windoze box (all my email etc. will go to the Linux box). Is this workable? Is it the simplest way to do what I want or is there a better way? Also, if I want to share my printer between the two machines, in you guys' experience is it better/simpler to hang the printer off the Windows box or the Linux box? Thanks, Lee -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
