>I am not familiar with Comcast, but here are a few ideas that may get >you there: > >1. When the Comcast service is activated from Windows, does it require a >username/password to activate? Some cable providers don't "switch on >the connection" until you are authenticated in this way. If this is the >case, you will need some application to log you on under linux (on the >router machine). There probably is one, but Google is your friend >there. > >2. Assuming that item 1 is handled or not required, you will find that >the cable service allocates only one IP address, so any LAN connected >machines need to run with local addresses. To implement this, you need >two ethernet cards in your router. The one connected to your LAN gets a >local address - usually 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 The one connected to >the cable modem gets its address via DHCP. Then turn on IP forwarding >and use squid on the router to proxy the connection. That way, the >cable network sees a single client, but your LAN has access from all >machines. > >Just come back with specific questions if any of this is in a foreign >language. > >HTH >Brian > > >
Thanks for the info Brian. The only thing that's foreign to me at the moment is Squid. Does Squid come with Mandrake 8.0 or will I need to download it first? Do you have a URL so that I can learn more about it? Thanks, Aaron Holiday __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
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