On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 23:04, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > Hi, where I live we have several PC's and have decided to get an ADSL > connection. What do I need to do to set up my FC2 machine as a router > for the windows PC's? Thinking using squid for every one as well... > > -- > Rob Brown-Bayliss > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Despite the cost of living, it remains a popular pastime. > ______________________________________________________________________ What I did was set up an old box with two nics plugged one into the DSL "modem" the other into a plain hub. On the old 486 I ran http://www.freesco.org it will run on as little as one floppy 386 with 6 MB of ram. It's a snap to set up, just answer the questions Freesco asks. The name is a joke: free Cisco, the guy thought Cisco charged too much for routers so he made this. Check with your ISP on how to set up your DSL modem, I had to change mine to bridging, then set up the network to the router. Tim...
