Re: [NTLK] [NTLK]MP2100 internet over ethernet (through router)

From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 09:50:42 PST


hellsop_at_ninehells.com schreef:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:34:57PM +0100, Marcus Hammerschmitt wrote:
>
>>At 18:33 21.02.2006, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>>You can also use another computer on your network to connect via PPPoe
>>>and then reshare the internet link. This is trivial with OSX panther
>>>(10.3 or later) and probably doable with windows also...
>>
>>Now that is interesting. Has anybody experience with doing this on
>>an XP-machine?
>
>
> It's a single checkbox ("Share this network connection" or some such) on
> XP Professional. Not availble with a default install of XP Home.

Or you could de-mothball an ancient computer, rip out the hard drive,
stick one of the special Linux router distros in the CD and use that as
a router.

Still, I already have a dedicated router, so using XP as a second router
would be kinda... not-so-intelligent.

Karel Jansens

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