>You can pay more and get static IP addresses (I have a dynamic one, but it hasn't changed yet. Maybe if I turn the modem off.) I have two PC at home networked (so one PC has two ethernet cards) and I am using software so both can access the net. This works well too.
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Waht OS are you using on the machine hooked to the wire? I wasn't aware that NT could do IP forwarding to allow another networked machine. I am having trouble picturing how this works as far as IP assignment on the piggyback machine...