Other than for security, there isn't a real need. As long as you plan to keep your computer up and running all the time, and you don't mind outages for other computers when you reboot your Windows computer. (For quite some time, I used a Linux computer as my firewall device. However, actions like deciding to upgrade the distribution always took longer than I would expect. Windows, during a reinstall period, takes quite some time too, with all the reboots necessary to install my software and the critical updates). -----Original Message----- From: gchris@bellsouth.net [mailto:gchris@bellsouth.net] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:05 PM To: Paul W. Abrahams Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Can XP ICS support SuSe DHCP? BTW, XP ICS can use two NICs or one NIC and a dialup modem or one NIC and a USB connection to a cable/DSL modem. Now tell me why I need a $50 router to fix something that isn't broken? ;) Chris