Hi Paul. I have several machines connected to cox@home, windows and linux, all capable of accessing the internet at the same time. I believe the extra $5.00 per month is if you want additional "public" IP addresses; $5.00/mo. for each additional. I was set up like that for a while when my son was still at home and I didn't have the linksys. I am now using a linksys router box and 192.168.y.x series addresses on the "private" side. Works for me. I went the linksys route instead of something like GNATBox or LRP (Linux Router Project) because I am not personally comfortable with these boxes running at home, unattended. Probably wholly illogical and unjustified, but there it is. Ed. > Paul Nauman wrote: > > I was connected via dialup to AOL through my Win98 machine with Shared > Internet Connection turned on. This allowed me to also access the > internet from my Red Hat 7.0 machine. I am now connected to Cox@home > through the Win98 machine and would like to access the internet from > both machines but I can not get it to work on the Linux system. > > Do I have to tell Cox that I am using 2 machines to get a second > "CX9999999-a" name, and pay an additional $5.00 per month? :-( > > There must be a way around this, right? Some one please say yes. :-) > > I live close to GCC, will this situation be discussed at the West Side > Plug meeting there on Apr. 24th about connecting Linux to the > internet? > > Thanks for any help setting this up. > > Paul Nauman