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If I understand this correctly, you are turning a computer into a router for another computer? Why would you do this? I'm obviously a youngling
by harrygeez 3y ago
If I understand this correctly, you are turning a computer into a router for another computer? Why would you do this?
I'm obviously a youngling
- G3rn0ti 3y agoIn Germany about 20 years ago people were still doing dial-up using a broadband (DSL) modem. The provider wouldn't give you a routing device but only a bare-bones giant modem. When still living with my parents I remember rolling off an ethernet cable across the apartment every night connecting my PC with the broadband modem and then invoking a bash script initiating a PPPoE (point-to-point over ethernet) dial up connection to the service provider. That was before WiFi and even before home routers were a thing. Probably back until 2002 or 2003. Edit: This is how my first DSL modem (without routing facility) looked like: https://www.teltarif.de/arch/2009/kw27/10jahredsl-rueckblick-7l.jpg https://www.teltarif.de/arch/2009/kw27/10jahredsl-rueckblick...
- rashkov 3y agoI assume it was so they could share the connection among two computers