Don't listen to em just yet. They're out to make money on something
you can do for next to nothing and a little work!
I have a similar setup using a cable modem(roadrunner) with a mixed
linux/win95/win98 setup among 5 computers. I use an Asante friendly
net 5 port hub to connect the 5 machines.
I have 1 machine (linux box) with 2 network cards. This machine is the
one connected to the cable modem on NIC #1. It gets a dynamic IP
address from my ISP. NIC #2 connects to my home lan (fixed class C
network addresses, 192.168.x.x)via the hub. The linux box runs IP Masq
and firewall to make all my other boxes look as if only 1 box is
accessing the Internet.
The other machines (1 linux box and 3 windows machines) connect to it
via their own NIC's on my local network. I just setup the windows
machines to use a proxy server (the linux box at 192.168.1.1) and
setup the appropriate ports.
All 5 machines can access the net at the same time with no noticable
decrease in speed.
I got most of the information I needed from the How-to's on IP masq
and firewall as well as the cable modem how-to. A search on
dejanews.com gave me some insight as well. The important thing to do
first is to get the local network working first between your 2
machines. Then start with the rest.
you don't need a dedicated 3rd machine for what you are doing, but it
is nice. I happened to have enough spare parts over and put an old PCI
bus 486 together to have the cable modem attached to it.
I used 6 pci NE2000 10/100 compatible NICS ($19.00 a piece mailorder)
and the Asante friendly net 5 port hub ($39.00) and SuSE 5.3 to
accomplish this.
I figured why pay roadrunner more for another IP address when linux
does it for a little bit of sweat.
Hope this helps a bit.
J-L
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---"Matthew D. Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hello
>
> I have an AxDSL connection. The way this is set up is the company
takes my
> network adaptor address (12-digit, hex) and binds that to a specific
IP
> address. I want to connect a second computer, laptop, to the
internet via
> this AxDSL connection. They have told me that I need to purchase an
> additional account for a monthly fee and they will provide a second
IP.
> The laptop has a network card. How can I network both computers to the
> AxDSL using the one with an IP as a gateway. Is this possible? If so
what
> kind of HUB is reccomended? Do I need one with an uplink? Both
systems run
> Linux and Win98. SHould I use a third system as a dedicated gateway
and
> connect the others to that, and then that to the AxDSL? Any help
would be
> appreciated.
>
> Matt Howell
> NMSU
>
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