dsl and internet sharing

Need some advice on setting up 2 machines for Internet Sharing. Have done using ishare and wingate but have not done with the one machine having DSL.

Machine 1 - xp home has dsl modem (nic) (adsl)
Machine 2 - has integrated nic using Windows 98 2nd edition

Distance between 2 machine probably no more than 20 feet.

Assistance would be appreciated.

 

My first suggestion is to use a router/switch to do the job rather than a software solution. Linksys, DLink, Netgear all make excellent devices and you are looking at around $50-$60 for the device. Setup is pretty automatic and you can then get to the net with either PC without the other one running and do good, fast networking between the PCs as well.

Otherwise, ICS (and I'd use the XP box as the host) will do it in pretty much the same fashion as wingate did. For specifics, do a search on here using ICS DSL and you will turn up lots of recent how-to articles. ICS doesn't really see much difference in dial-up, cable, DSL modems.

 

Newt

I was wondering if a hardware device would be better than a software solution. Thanks for the infor