Re: Wondering about doing something strange with networking

On Tuesday 27 Oct 2009, Alex Samad wrote:

you are leaving yourself open for all sorts of problems, there is
nothing between your other computers and the internet.....

get the usb network dongle

You are probably right - I am complicating things for no good reason.

Just as an aside, there seems to be a varierty of usb to ethernet
connectors, at a variety of different prices. Some seem to be so cheep
that they can be little more than a usb connector and rj45 connector.
Do they all work with standard debian?

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