On Thursday 07 December 2006 10:16, Aditya Laghate wrote: > > I have two machines too and my ISP offers pppoe. I am advised to get a > > router which can do pppoe and I can be on DHCP behind the router. May be > > that could be an option.. > > Yes, having a router can save you lot of trouble of setting up a proxy > / firewall tweaking, etc. > > But for a true enthusiast, I shall suggest, play around with the > firewall/proxy and if required a DHCP server to get both the machines > on the net.
It is not as much about having built in firewall/proxy as it is about putting any machine on the net without bringing up another. Don't want to bring up two machines in the bedroom when I can take out the laptop out in the hall.. ;) Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
