OS/networking question

Me | FatherTorque

[Cultural Jihad]

Let me know if you need help with cleaning the mouse, FT. You're light-years ahead of me on hardware. ;)

[Mannaggia l'America]

More advice: If you are installing both Windows and Linux, get everything working the way you want it to work with the OS's before moving your data onto it or installing lots of apps. That way you can trash everything if you don't like they way you partitioned it or something you did causes it not to boot an OS.

Partition Magic software is great for creating partitions and resizing them afterwards.

If you want to spend the $, you could get VMware, which will allow you to run both Windows and Linux at the same time - not dual boot, but actually run them both at the same time. It's probably overkill if you are just playing around with Linux.

[Dinsdale]

If you get a Linksys proxy/switch make sure you have the latest firmware. They have/had security issues. My D-link has been trouble free (so far).

Unless you are already using linux don't, FreeBSD is a better unix and is just as open source (as I flee from the penguin people). Linus does not scale (that is not a typo, ONE guy has to incorporate all the linux kernel updates).

If you don't want to run Cat5 get wireless networking hardware. If you do this make sure you lock it down to only accept communication from your known network hardware (you should be able to give the hardware a list a MAC addresses to respond to, others will be ignored). Use encryption or someone with network hardware in promiscous mode can listen in.

[2111USMC]

"Overall it wasn't too bad. The Netgear router and cards were a snap to get up and running. After they were connected I had internet access in less than 5 minutes. On the plus side when I check my system security at the "Shields Up" website, I'm much better off now than when I was just running Black Ice Defender. It's certainly much better than dealing with the Intel Anypoint stuff I had before."

Told ya!

Excellent choice in networking gear! :)

[atafak]

Go to Mandrake Control Center.
Click on Network and Internet.
Click on Connection.
Under LAN Configuration, click Configure Local Area Network
There is an option there for starting on boot

Let me know if that helps or not

[FatherTorque]

That did the trick, thanks much.