alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> My suggestion is to avoid the entire issue and
> setup a 486 without a hard drive running a
> floppy distro as a firewall/NAT box.

Thanks, Alan.

Two boxes will have to be my limit.

The problem is that I don't have the time or
the space to set up and maintain YET another
box, another keyboard, another monitor ...
I'm a programmer, not a sysadmin.

And I have zero budget for added toys:
a three-way KVM switch, with cables, would
cost me $150 or so as far as I can determine.

My Debian box is a Pentium 166, so
it would not be a bad candidate as
my front end, but then I'd risk losing
my network connection any time I was
tinkering with the Debian box.
The Windows box is static (I doubt I'll
ever move beyond Win98), so it should
be a good portal if that will work.

You can spend your life on this kind
of thing and never get around to
developing software ...

Vic