small network problem

[Keith Antoine]

On Friday 18 July 2003 01:28 pm, ronnie gauthier wrote:
> Back when mandrake 8.2 was out I was still on a dial up and it always
> barfed out and required a reboot. While the linux box continued to surf
> fine the other boxs hanging off the hub could not. I could stop and restart
> stuff till the cows came home and it still required a reboot. The freaking
> thing would just no longer act as a gateway. Cleared up when I added a
> Linksys router and used it as a gateway/firewall, imagine that. ;-) I
> blamed it on NAT.

I had knew that would fix the problem as I have used that to fix other peoples
network problems I the past. However they were customers, grin, who could 
afford the outlay. I am in a position whereby daughter is finishing Uni in a 
couple of months, graduating, as a teacher. She has more than a 50/50 chance 
of going having to leave home again and go bush. As most students here have 
to repay the Govt the cost of Uni, thyey, the Govt, can send them anywhere 
within Qld. This means up to 3000 km away to teach. This does not warrant the 
purchase of a router, hence I need a cheap work around.

-- 
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161
Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage