My current configuration is three computers and a network printer connected to a fast ethernet switching hub.
Internet access is normally (well as normal as can be accepted for my phone/isp company) via a Billion ADSL Router which runs DHCP and allocates the computers their IP addresses (the printer has a static address so as to avoid problems with DHCP), the router is attached to the hub too.
Presently the phone lines and thus ADSL as well, are down and so I've reverted to plan B for internet access i.e. GPRS/Edge via a mobile phone.
I log on to the internet on my main puppy 4.3.1 usually on the first available IP address 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.1 is the router and 192.168.1.50 is the network printer).
When ADSL is up, all the computers can get access to the internet via the router.
But since it's down only I can get access via ppp on my machine: I would like the other machines to have access via my machine.
Also, in order to gain access to the internet via GPRS/Edge I have found I have to bring down my eth0 interface on my puppy machine using
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ifconfig eth0 down
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ifconfig eth0 up
Could someone explain to me why, and how to remedy this situation.
I fumbled around on the router web setup but cannot see an obvious choice.
Lastly, when ADSL is up I allow port forwarding via my router so my friends can access my discs using python and SimpleHTTPServer.
Can I achieve this using this pet?
Sorry for the inordinate length of this post but I'm wary of changing my working setup too much and finding all goes tits up when they get around to fixing the phone lines and ADSL comes back on line.
Potong
p.s. almost forgot: will this also cater for any virtual machines running via VirtualBox on my puppy?