Re (?): [Oberon] Bluebottle/No and PCMCIA networking

[shark]

Edgar,

es> A possible scenario is that two boys sit 
before two Windows PCs connected by LAN
to a DSL router.

es> So the question is whether it's possible 
without too much work to use this internet 
access somehow by connecting the laptop to 
one of the PCs using the serial interface ?

This will work.  An old 486 can serve for the 
gateway.  The serial ports will be no faster than 
115200 b/s.  The DSL link might be even slower.

For more information look at the ipmasq Howto 
and the home-networking Howto in 
http://www.tldp.org/ .

Regards,                   Peter E.
                                  
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