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Yup, had a 486 running Slackware and a Pentium running Windows (FWG? 95?) and wanted to be able to share a single, always-on dial-up connection between them. I
by mwpmaybe 11y ago
Yup, had a 486 running Slackware and a Pentium running Windows (FWG? 95?) and wanted to be able to share a single, always-on dial-up connection between them. I asked for a hub (with a 10Base2 BNC hookup and four 10BaseT ports) for my 15th or 16th birthday and found a 10Base2 ISA card for the 486 and a 10BaseT PCI card for the Pentium and went to town with ipchains, ppp, the whole nine yards. Good times.
In retrospect, I was very fortunate to have access to not only one but two computers, dial-up Internet, and a second phone line. It didn't seem like it at the time because my friends were getting ISDN lines. So many hours spent on IRC learning about Linux...