Linux box as gateway/firewall?

4 Jun 2001

      Hello,

I have a local Ethernetwork of several Macs, and would like to use one
of them (an old Power Mac 7300 running SuSE Linux 7.0) as gateway/
firewall to the wide world. I understand from the IP-Masquerade HOWTO
that this requires the 7300 to have *two* Ethernet ports:

        iMac     iMac
            \   /
             \ /
             Hub ---------------- 7300 --- Modem --- WEB.
             / \
            /   \
       iBook    printer

(See http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.26.
Only the 7300 would stay "on" 24/7.)

1) Do I understand correctly?
2) If yes, I need to add a Network card in one the 7300's PCI slots.
   What's a good choice? (Price, SuSE 7.0 support,...)

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions,

hysterion