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[d.haysom@xxxxxxxxxxx (Duncan)]

Ok, I think I'm going to do it, god damn it.
I'll get all the How-tos, a book or three, and a new NIC and do it.

Thanks for all the responses.
Duncan xx

On a different matter buying books.

You should check out www.bookpool.com I've always found them good for
computer book.

Also there's an anti Amazon article at http://www.linuxdoc.org/rms.txt
concerning open source.

Sam wrote:

I agree, make the Linux box the router, not the windows box.  I would
recommend
getting a second NIC so that if things don't go as smothly as you liked
(like it
is 3:30 in the morning things are not running correctly and you have to go
to
work at 8, which has happened to me more then once<g>), you can simply plug
the
cable modem back into the M$ machine and it is working, don't have to deal
with
swapping out the NIC's.

Installing another NIC is very easy with SuSE IF it is a name brand card.
Presently I have two 3COM's in one of my SuSE box's, it was a peice of cake!

How you allow the Windows box to get to the Internet through the Linux box
is
called IP Masquerading, there is a good HOWTO on the subject, along with
most if
not all the setting inside the rc.config file.  I have more then two
computers
so I took the time to figure out how to get DHCPd running on the Linux box
so I
did not have to assign IP's to each of the computers, this too, is easy to
install if you read the HOWTO.

You might want to then explorer setting up a firewall on the Linux box to
lock
down on security.  Tomorrow I should be getting the book: Linux Firewalls (
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735709009/miltonstreet ), from what
I
have read it is designed for the non expert.  Oh, if you don't already know,
the
security holes that you might have in linux without the firewall are still a
consern if you use the M$ box as the router.

But all this really isn't too hard!

Sam


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