>I'm about to get a cable modem installed - finally. I'd like to share that IP address with all my home computers, and I'd like to figure out the most direct way of doing that.
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>I have an NT4 WorkStation and a Win98 machine networked, and I have a third machine which I could set up with just about anything I want - NTServer, Netware/Bordermanager, Linux.....
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>I've heard that a recent update to Win98 may do proxying of some sort, but I'm not sure where to get the upgrade and whether the upgrade will require a complete re-install of Win98 or not!
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>Any suggestions regarding my best option?
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If it's the @Home product, you're out of luck - while it can be worked around using NT Server /Proxy Server 1.0 (it's convoluted to do) it is not compatible with either the current Proxy Server 2.0, or Win98 2nd Edition's proxies, and will stop working if it sees any of a very wide range of third-party proxies sitting on your system.

There is an upgrade to go from existing Win98 to 2nd edition; as mentioned, it won't do @Home, however, there are both ISDN and DSL products that it does work with.