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Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > The hard part was: A laptop naturally has 1 nic built-in. > I needed a 2nd nic in order to do anything interesting with routing. It was > difficult to find a pcmcia nic which was supported. Another option would be to use VLAN tagging[1] and an external switch that understands it. This is what the cheap home routers do. All the LAN and WAN ports go into a common switch with VLAN taggging used to segregate them. Looks like you can get a switch for $25[2] that supports tagging. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlan 2. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124005 -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/
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