Neighbors decided they wanted to try Linux on one of thier pcs. I loaded Linux on one of them the other is running xp. They had a home network that consisted of 2 network cards, not using a router. They have cable internet. I can get one online at a time, never two. They don't have a static ip. I would like the Linux box running Fedora to "host" the internet for the two pcs. Cable modem into the linux box on one nic, going out of the linux box to the xp machine on the other nic. How can I get this to work.

Thanks ahead of time.

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That can be done quite easily using iptables. Read the IP Masquerading HOWTO at www.tldp.org. The HOWTO has a simple script to test out everything. Then there is a stronger script once everything is working.

Well, first, you need a "twisted pair" ethernet cable for connecting both computers.
Then, you can try to set squid as http proxy on the linux machine and configure XP browser for using the linux IP address as proxy server.
This is for a beginning. This way you get http, https and ftp working for XP machine. Then if you want advanced network features on the XP ( I guess not), you use iptables & NAT.

I have it working like this but on the other way:

Internet <-------->W2K_PC_with_dialup_and_Squid_for_NT_running <--------> linux_laptop_with_W2K_IP_set_as_proxy