linux box as "router"

From: extrinsik (extrinsik_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:28:20 GMT

I have been considering for awhile turning an old box of mine into a
"router" parsay. I have done alot of thinking about it, but I need some
insight. The main problem is that I am on 56k therefore I do not have a
static IP. In my head, I would have to change the IP on my other box to the
gateways IP everytime I got disconnected. Am I right? I don't know much
about networking; other then just simple networks I have setted up in the
past with wind0ze (shame on me :P). I have googled around for it, but I
havn't found much on dynamic IP's. 99.9% of the tutorials out there for
gateways are targetted to the broadband networks.

Maybe someone can clear this up for me?

Thanks..

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