>Jerry,
>
>>Oh, you mean allowing two or more networked computers to share the same internet connection..... Sorry about my confusion. I don't keep abreast of WinXX buz words.
>>ICS is a Piece of cake. In my wife's Sony VIAO I put two ethernet cards. Her PC acts as a firewall and connects via eth0 to a Cisco 675 router set up as a dhcp server for my ISPs DLS service. Eth0 gets its IP address from the Cisco dhcp server. Eth1 has a fixed IP address and used to connect to a passive HUB to which my PC and my son's PC were attached. We both had fixed IP addresses. The Sony was setup with IPFORWARD turned on, and /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network files on all machines were set with the respective hostnames and IP addresses. From any box I can telnet or VNC into the other boxes and do maintanence,etc... So, not only to we share the internet transparently and simultaneously, we also share apps and files. The email and newsgroup services work transparently too.
>>
>>http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/eznetshare.html
>>http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/linux-share-internet.asp
>>http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/clientcfg.htm
>
>A week ago I got myself set up with broadband to my home. I am using a Cisco 342 bridge which has, as it looks like you've discussed above, DHCP set up on it. I'd like to have a computer directly set up with one net card to this bridge whuch would allow me to NAT my entire internal home network. It appears that this is what you are doing. I'm thinking that this computer should be a Linux box with, as you've pointed out two network cards. As I've never actually done this before I could use a gentle nudge in the right direction. As soon as I post this message I'll take a peek at your three references above.
>
>The bridge can host up to eight(8) IPs but I'm thinking that with NAT I can easily get around this. Am I thinking correctly here? ALso, I'd like to run a DNS server (for playing/testing) and a couple of web sites (play/test/etc) but since the bridge gives out DHCP IPS am I needing to get at least one static IP from my providor?
>
>Thanks!!!

The Cisco 675 router was given to me preconfigured as a DHCP server by my ISP. It supplied only one IP address. As it turned out, that IP address never changed in the 18 months I had the service. My wife's sony (and my Athlon) was up 24/7 for months at a time and released that same address every 24 hours. So, I've never connected to a dhcp host that could supply more than one. The Cisco became mine after the first year and with the passwords to the two levels I was able to look around. I would never have been able to hook the cisco directly to the hub and let each PC in my home network query the dhcp server directly because it the flash coding allowed only one IP address at a time. But, it didn't make any difference because each PC was independently connected to the internet through the Sony firewall/dhcp server even though there was only one IP address. with four people doing email, browsing, running streaming video and audio we never had a problem. Believe it or not, except when I was doing a 600MB download, each PC appeared to have a bandwidth access that made it seem as if it were on the connection alone.

I've never tried what you are contemplating, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. There are some HOWTOs at the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) explaining how. I believe they are called NET3 or something like that.
JLK