Of course. IP-masquerading is the thing you'll want. I haven't been playing with this myself, but a pal 'o mine does it at his place, and it works very well. On Apr 27 George Jones wrote: > Ok... I have a question for all of you network geniuses out there. I have > been contemplating the purchase of a switch for my home network. I have 3 > PC's that need to be connected to the internet with my cable connection. I > had thought to buy that Linksys Cable router, but I realized that I have > quite a few network cards and enough parts to build another PC (p200mmx) > and thought that maybe I could throw all of the extra NIC's into this new > box, drop Linux on it and use the machine as a proxy/router/switch. Is > something like this feasable? > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgium tel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... ------------------------------------------------------------ Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers