if you rent static IPs from your ISP you can do
exactly that. Alternately you can set up internet
connection sharing through your main machine (it'll
need to have two NIC cards) but I have no idea how to
do that in linux, I just know that you can do it.
There is a HOWTO for doing it of course.
see
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html
and
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO.html
and
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO.html
and probably
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html
too.
I've got three computers on a LAN here. The Uplink
port on our hub goes into the router and the router
goes into the wall. I do actually need to have
wandows installed on one of the computers to talk with
my router though. Stupid wandows only programs.
Dacia
--- Glenn Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I can jump in here, does this mean that
> theoretically I can connect my DSL
> modem to the network hub here at home, and connect
> to the web from any of the
> three computers on the network?
>
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, you wrote: > Dacia and
> AzureRose
> wrote: > >
> > > as far as I know all dsl "modems" are actually
> > > routers. Even the internal ones. There are no
> issues
> > > with dsl Win Modems therefore.
> > >
> > > Dacia
> >
> > Oh. At any rate, I connect through my network
> card to a Netopia
> > router that has a 8 port ethernet hub built into
> it, and not
> > through an internal card.
> >
> > Also, even if this router is internal, there is a
> chance that
> > there are no drivers that work under Linux. I
> mean, it ain't
> > gonna route if Linux doesn't recognize it as a
> device and is able
> > to assign an IP address to it. That is all I was
> trying to say
> > :-)
> >
> > Dan
> --
> Glenn Johnson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Linux-Mandrake v7.0
>
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