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Originally Posted by Thorn
Like I said back in #113, "I dislike using PCs as router, and would spend an extra 35 bucks on a hardware router like the Linksys BEFSR41."
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Or go with the easy solution, drop using Windows ICS, connect one of the Linksys WRT54GS's right after the DSL modem, and then the switch to one of the LAN ports on that WRT. Use the Linksys WRT54GS as it was meant to be used : a combined WiFi acesspoint and Router.
Of course that will only work, if you still have RF-LOS from the place where the DSL modem is, to the barn. Otherwise you need to do a double cat5 run from the DSL modems postion to where the GS should be, and back from there to the switch.
As Thorn said earlier, and again in the previous post: Hardware beats software* for routing purposes. It takes the headache out of the equation.
Dutch
*Especially when using feature limited NAT routingsoftware on top of an already ressourcedemanding OS