Re: Complicated LAN


Davide Bianchi wrote:
On 2006-12-26, Tokenhost <mylesharper007@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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There is a wireless router downstairs which is working fine.
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I have three other low-spec desktops running various flavours of linux
I want connected together (I have an ethernet hub, cable, ETC) but also
able to access the internet through the router without wireless cards
in each.

Just connect them to the hub and then pull a cable from the hub to the
wireless router, the router should also have some wired connection
available.

Would it be possible to connect two of the desktops to one of them
using the hub and turning the one they are connected to into a DHCP
server or maybe putting a wireless network card into one and using ICS?

That's another solution, but then you'll have to configure the machine
acting as 'server' as a gateway for the other machines.

Davide

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Linux; a re-Gnu-able resource.
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Thanks for that,
I really appreciate the help and the first solution sounds the easiest
but there is a slight problem with the wireless router being downstairs
and the hub and the rest of the LAN being upstairs.

So how would you configure the server as a gateway? Does it have to be
a fairly high spec machine or can it be just a low spec one. Also, what
would you recommend the gate way to run in terms of operating system.
Is there a Linux distro designed for that?

.

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