my wife uses a Win XP system which is connected to our cable modem service (comcast). the ip addy ofcourse is dynamic.
i've been on slackware for the past 5 months now. but never hooked the box to the internet.
i'm trying to make the box a router (it was two network interfaces), i have that figured out. the only thing that's making me go in circles is that when i run netconfig from the CLI it asks me for the host name and the domain. what should i put there, is it referring to the ISP info or just my info ?
i need some guidance with this. any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanx

You shouldn't really need to specify either.

Once you have got the devices connected and can ping each device and sites on the net from your box add an iptables MASQ rule to masquerade the traffic for the second box.

thanks for the info