Hello Nicholas!
On Sat 24 Jan 1998 at 18:05 you wrote the following to Mike Bilow:
 MB>> You might look at using Linux instead of NT.  Linux will do IP
 MB>> Masquerading, which is the particular feature that you need.
 NC> I've been thinking of that, but it isn't too practical with the number
 NC> of computers I have running here.  I'm running NT WS, Nt Server and
 NC> Win95.  I wouldn't mind ditching NT server, but I'm planning on
 NC> starting a self-paced MCSE course shortly so I'll need all three
 NC> operating systems.
Multiboot one of the MS operating systems, or get a cheap 486. Linux doesn't 
need vast amounts of either harddisk or memory. 8mb would probably be fine in 
a masquerading router.
IP Masquerading (i.e renumbering) is generally thought of as a better option 
when you can trust the hosts on the local network.
Linux is also free, and of course at some time you're probably going to want 
to run internet servers - common Linux distributions all have http, ftp, 
telnet and endless servers built in, plus IRC, etc downloadable from your 
nearest sunsite.unc.edu mirror.
You won't regret it. Anyway, I have great fun playing around with my Linux 
machines :-)
 Will                                        
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