OK, so here's the deal. Come Monday I will be getting DSL from sprint installed. When I mentioned running linux it didn't seem to be a problem for them. I'm still running 8.1 and will be until after I get the DSL up and working. I want to continue the connection sharing that I've been running with the PPP setup. I believe I can still do this with the DSL. I have a mini-hub. I have a bunch of questions:
1). Do I connect the DSL modem to the hub and then direct my machine to communicate with the IP configuration they give me? 2). Assuming that is the case (Yeah, I know all about _assuming_) will the current configuration of connection sharing continue to work with the DSL? In other words, is all I have to do is reconfigure my internet connection to use the DSL and the other machine on my mini-lan will still see it using the current connection sharing configuration? 3). Provided this all works as I think it will the next step is to download the 9.1 images. Are there any gotchas I should be worried about? 4). Will 9.1 also do the connection sharing like 8.1 does? Here's my real concern, I don't want to be spending two or three days trying to get everything squared away and working. I want to be able to know all the hazards and gotchas upfront so that it will be a relatively painless switch over. Can this be done? Bear in mind that while I am a programmer that was for macs, on linux I'm somewhere between novice and intermediate. Tom Williams
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