Peeter Vissak wrote:
Hi! I used to have a very small LAN with 2 PC-s.No router. The 2nd PC is connected with the 1st one from ethernec card to ethernet card via a cable Connection is DSL with Win XP, the other PC was using 98SE, but I replaced it with Knoppix. Question -- keeping my DSL connection by the means of Win XP (WAN MINIPORT PPPOE),l how can I link my Knoppix PC with the LAN? (From eth card to eth card)?Peeter
I think what you're really asking is how to get WinXP to be a "standard" (rather than a "Microsoft standard") router/dhcp server/etc, which is really a Windows question rather than a Debian question. I for one don't know how WinXP is setup; for all I know all it's doing is offering smb (peer-to-peer "Windows Networking") connections, in which case Samba on the Debian side _might_ help.
However, you can build a real (albeit small) LAN just by running down to your local Joe's Discount Computer Shack and getting a $40 (add $15 for wireless) router/switch/firewall and a couple of $5 ethernet cables; then you plug the DSL connection into the router, configure it to serve out IP addresses (either dynamic or reserved) and plug your two computers into it; BING! Both machines are on the net, and the Debian box no longer has to rely on the Windows box.
-- Kent