Re: Complicated LAN

Thanks for the reply,

Since none of your Linux boxes contain a wireless
network card, in order to use one of them as a gateway, you'll need to
give it access to the network.

Yes, thats what I intended. That is just the network situation at the
moment.
I will probably take the network card out of the Windows Xp machine and
put it into a Linux box which will be the gateway.

If you plan to use the XP box as your gateway, you're posting in the wrong
newsgroup :-)

Nope. I will probably change that and install a version of Suse in the
near future anyway.

It would be easy if you can route a cat5 cable from upstairs to
downstairs, then you can use the hardware you already have.

Thats not a possibility just because of the way the house and network
is layed out.
So could you recommend an OS for the gateway and how should I configure
it?

.

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