Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

[gchris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

John Andersen wrote:
> 
> On Friday 27 February 2004 11:49, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> > On Friday 27 February 2004 7:35 am, Malke Routh wrote:
> > > Hi, Alejo. This is the part where I tell you that Windows ICS sucks and
> > > is nasty even with just Windows boxen. This is the part where I tell you
> > > to get an inexpensive (<$50usd) router instead or put the Linux box as
> > > the gateway. ICS just isn't very good, even with an all-Windows
> > > situation.
> >
> > I'll second that.  ICS requires a box with two ethernet cards, which in
> > itself can be tricky to configure whether in Linux or Windows.
> 
> Say what???
> Its drop dead simple to get suse to handle two nics!
> You can even select this option in Yast while installing
> and it will set up dhcp server on the inside nic for you
> and set up the routing too...
> 
> > Routers are the key to heaven these days no matter what OS you're running.
> 
> Well at under $40 for router boxes, I have to agree with the above.
> Unbox, Plug in, Surf!!
> 
> OTOH, when a bug is discovered in these that lets crackers in, you will be the
> last to know.

Are you suggesting you know of some that don't? ;)

Chris