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by **John Jense** » Sun, 28 Feb 1999 04:00:00

Instead of using 2 nics on the linux box you could get 1 nic and a hub;
might be a little easier to configure the ip routing. I don't have any data
for you on the speed loss; I don't think it would be very much of you have
decent RAM and aren't running X on the 486...

by **UWHO** » Mon, 01 Mar 1999 04:00:00

I have a pent 1 and a pent II i want to use to surf the net, i just got a cable
modem that i can only use on one computer, unless i get another NIC and run
winproxy or something like that. i have win 95/98 on the pent 1 and win 98/nt
on the pent II. Is this the way to go. OR i have a 486 that i was thinking of
setting up as a Linux box, and running the modem into, and useing web
masquerading. can i do this , do i need 2 nics in the 486, is there a speed
loss using the old 486 should i use the faster pentium, what nic should i go
with, i have 10/100's in the pent and pent 2. does the nic make any diffrence?
my isp mediaone uses dhcp(or something like that)dynamic) to give me my IP is
that going to cause problems? what are linuxs minimum requirements,(for this) i
think I have 8 mg in the 486?

Thanks alot
JC

by **Rick Onania** » Tue, 02 Mar 1999 04:00:00

This is an extremely common setup. The 486 is more than sufficient to
do this. I run a 386dx/40 with 8mb RAM and no hard drive for this
purpose, and routinely get 200k/s, burst speeds up to 2mb... You would
be best off with two NICs in the linux box. One can be done, but makes
you very susceptible to someone using your IP address to hack with, and
you get blamed. I reccommend two....it works for me. And, they're cheap.

You should check out http://www.linuxrouter.org to see, that may do the
trick for you.

> I have a pent 1 and a pent II i want to use to surf the net, i just got a cable
> modem that i can only use on one computer, unless i get another NIC and run
> winproxy or something like that. i have win 95/98 on the pent 1 and win 98/nt
> on the pent II. Is this the way to go. OR i have a 486 that i was thinking of
> setting up as a Linux box, and running the modem into, and useing web
> masquerading. can i do this , do i need 2 nics in the 486, is there a speed
> loss using the old 486 should i use the faster pentium, what nic should i go
> with, i have 10/100's in the pent and pent 2. does the nic make any diffrence?
> my isp mediaone uses dhcp(or something like that)dynamic) to give me my IP is
> that going to cause problems? what are linuxs minimum requirements,(for this) i
> think I have 8 mg in the 486?

> Thanks alot
> JC

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