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> James Michael Newton wrote:
> >
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>
> maybe try going the other way and putting the cable modem on the linux
> box
> my brother is running FreeBSD and has 4 computers setup at home all
> through his 1 cable modem connected to his FreeBSD box.
>
>                 Damon Hopkins
>

I'll second that, I'm running Linux as my main machine, with 2 Windows m/c
running through/off it.  Linux box can then do the masquerading, cacheing
and mail forwarding.

Is windows capable of ip masquerading and fowarding ?

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Regards,
Simon

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