Hello, I want to set up a home network. The idea is to have a server acting as a proxy server for internet access and also as a DHCP server to which all the other PCs will connect. I don't want to be spending hundreds of £££s on Windows Server software for a network of just a handful of PCs at the most so I guess I will need to use Linux, of which I have only limited experience of installing/configuring. I haven't managed to find any really good guides out there - does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!
Have a search on the forum this gets ask fairly often these days: But i'm in a giving mood (alright i admit it i'm bored) . ipcop, smoothwall, Clarkconnect and monowall all do these things most run on a dedicated machine which should not be used for any thing else for security reasons. They're basically are firewall distros but provide much of the needed additional functionality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Connection_Sharing http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_02july01.mspx
