Some weeks ago I bought an AMD64 X2 which now I must connect to
the internet, using my old Pentium 4 as router to the dynamic
address I receive from my cable provider whenever I boot. Having
used Testing since it came up in Potato times, I never needed and
never acquired networking knowledge. Debian did all that for me,
After three weeks of studying books, manuals and HOWTOS and try-
ing to configure the two computers, I am constantly running in
circles. I can ping from one computer to the other and from the
old computer to the internet, and I can do everything I did be-
fore with my old computer, but there is no connection at all
between the new one and the internet. This I need urgently be-
cause the AMD 64 has only a daily build netinst Etch I downloa-
ded and burned to disk on October 17th. It is terribly castra-
ted (even using 'more' instead of 'less'), but there is no way
out of the networking circles without apt-get or aptitude which
seem to be unreachable. My third computer, the one within the
skull, seems to be rapidly loosing flexibility and efficiency
after an uptime of more than 75 years.