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Yes. Exactly how you share your single DSL line depends on the operating system on your computer, and recently, whether or not your DSL provider is using PPPOE. With a regular DSL line, with a fixed or dynamic IP address, and Microsoft windows, if you wish to share Web- browsing access but have some flexibility to add ICQ and play multiplayer Internet games, then you can use one machine as a gateway. You can then run a NAT (network address translation) software product on that machine. Current versions of windows 98 even come with ICS, which is a Microsoft NAT implementation built in. Your private network IP addresses are allocated from the IP ranges and are internationally reserved for private use. Your NAT-equipped PC with two network interface cards functions as the gateway to the Internet. Or, you could buy additional IP addresses from your DSL provider. Most standard DSL solutions will allocate up to 255 IP addresses over the one line. |
