On Thursday 15 January 2004 2:36 am, Scot L. Harris wrote:
Or spend $40.00 for a hardware router from linksys or netgear and be done with it. Much easier to setup and fewer problems.
But doing it this other way would be a learning experience.
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 12:49, Vince Littler wrote:
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 4:47 pm, ben@killingcupid.org wrote:
I've got a desktop with two ethernet cards running SUSE9.0 Professional that I'm trying to get set up as a router so I can get my WinXP laptop online, presumably via IP forwarding and masquerading. My net connect is PPPoE - ppp0, over eth0. eth1 connects to the laptop. I've got the firewall set up to forward IP and rout, and I turned off 'protect from internal network.' The internal interface is eth1; the external interface is ppp0.
-- Scot L. Harris
Well, Ben has chosen the way to go if you have the HW and know how to do it. SuSE does give you a router out of the box and Ben has the HW. Having had the learning experience myself, learning is less hassle than buying a suitable router, even if you ignore the $40. Ben has only 3 cable ends to get right, with the hardware router he would have to get 5 ends right. If you are there Ben, have you got it running and can you back me up on this? Vince