[olug] home network

[Jeff Hinrichs]

You don't happen to have an old 486 with a couple nic's sitting around do
you?
If you did then you could use something like freesco http://www.freesco.org/
to make a dedicated router box.

-Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate" <tbrownarcher at cox.net>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] home network


> Yep! It's money!  I need to conserve right now and I have the cards so i
> figgered I could get this working like this.  Yes I have a Cox connection.
I
> may have to find a router somewhere a little cheaper or something.
>
> thanks,
> Nate
>
> Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
>
> > Nate,
> > Do you have a broad band connection (cable/dsl)?  If so, do yourself a
favor
> > and buy a linksys router.
> > If your dual boot machine is going to serve as the gateway you'll need
to do
> > it twice, once in *nix and once in doze.
> > It ain't worth the hassle when you can get a 4 port 10/100 switch/router
for
> > ~$100.
> >
> > I know money doesn't grow on trees but sometimes that hassle isn't worth
it,
> > especially if the computer routing is going to be booting back and
forth.
> >
> > -Jeff
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nate" <tbrownarcher at cox.net>
> > To: <olug at olug.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:54 PM
> > Subject: [olug] home network
> >
> > > I finally got linux on theinternet.  I'm into something new now.
> > > I have a dual boot system with windows on the other side, 2 nic cards
> > > one of which is connected to the internet and the other I wish to
> > > connect to my second computer in a network. The other computer is a
> > > single boot system with windows and one nic card I wish to connect to
> > > the first computer in a way that I can read and write both direction
and
> > > can get on the internet with both computers.
> > >
> > > Is this possible without a hub or router?  If not at the very least I
> > > want to be able to talk back and forth between the two computers in a
> > > home network and would reluctantly settle for only the one uning the
> > > internet.
> > >
> > > Thanks very much,
> > > Nate
> > >
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