Begginers guide to networking tutorial

sorry one more question (directed toward Bear), If it has no hdd then what OS does it use?  I would say a DOS boot disk but what program as a proxy server.  If u can make directions it would be macho help.  thanks.

[Uranium-235]

I wish I could use linux as our nat router.

dsl modem dosent have linux drivers

Uranium-235
Yes it was, but you might have posted i reply to
internal modems tend to use cpu power ?
My ADSL modem does not use any driver !
was it the internal modem which needed drivers ?
I'm not sure but Linux doesen't necessarily need
modem drivers It did not need one for my Lucent
dial-up when I had a Linux router called AutoNet
to share my modem connection with 3 other machines


cc_dex
The floppyfw has the OS on it (Linux) but on FAT
file system so you can change .ini and .cfg files
with notepad or similar on a regular PC no need
to have Linux machine or Linux knowledge

[Uranium-235]

It's a USB external. Win32 driver barely work, well, until now.

So bear, "floppyfw" can run just on a floppy drive and has drivers to run dual NIC's?  Also where can I find it.  Thanks Bear.

Here:
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/install.html
Best is to use 3com etherlink III
Supported network devices:
3com 3c509, 3c59x and 3c90x
NE2000 Compatible cards, both ISA and PCI
Tulip based cards.
intel EtherExpress PCI-cards.
RealTek rt8139, rt8129 and friends.
Modules support for adding modules for other NIC's.
They doesn't really use drivers i Linux they use modules
you'll find all you need on their page though
It is good to know that the NIC Eth0 is the
one with the lowest mac-address (should be written on NIC)
Eth0 is the one that should  go to the modem
and Eth1 to the HUB
It should work
anyways there is howtoes on the page.
3com is easy cause you can set them with software
in DOS (boot to dos with your w9x floppy and put
3com floppy in and set the port addresses I use 250 and 260)
As long as you have two card with different port addresse it should be no trouble.
Also to change config file, wordpad is better than notepad
I used metapad. All I had to add was username and password.

Well hope this will do ya
as one of the guys signs his posts

life is a beach, surf

Does it iclude a proxy server in the program or should I add the Analog X proxy program? Thanks.

Does anyone know of a DOS router program or a DOS proxy?  Thanks.

It's Linux man  ;D
No need it is a routing firewall
and if you look at their link or download
page there is one modded floppyfw
called floppyfw-jt which have good DHCP
for your network so all you have to set
in your TCP/IP settings on your two machines
is to obtain IP address automaticly nothing
in your browser, you might need to go to your login page
unless you have an permanent IP then you put user
and pass in config and use he current ppp image if you
use the -jt version you need to change in config
to use ppp.
Just go to their page it is easier than it looks at first.

Ok thanks.