I hate it when people improve things. They just bugger up something that was perfectly good to begin with... Ive loaded a dhcp server onto my windows laptop, and now trying to figure out how to connect via that to my Linux machine. I think i have it right with Linux, I just have to get the dhcp server to allow certain ports to get access to the internet. I love these all night games....
Glenn.
IIRC under windows you just need to turn on Internet connection sharing under the connection properties. Back in the days of Win98 it used to force the use of link local address for the lan but I believe these days you can set your own subnet You may need to adjust the windows firewall settings too.. it's been a while since I played with it cheers Jodi