Newbie wants to do Internet Connection Sharing

[lizardloop]

For the past 6 months or so I have been using windows 2000 Internet Connection Sharing to serve my home network of 5 PC's with our broadband.
I'm wanting to install Linux instead of windows 2000.
My questions is thus.
Which of these articles do I follow?

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/routing.html
and
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/eznetshare.html

Bear in mind I'm pretty new to linux. The most I've done is install Mandrake one time.

[z0mbix]

I used the second by X_console to get my internet connection shared on my lan. But, if you'r using Mandrake, it has a GUI to make this really easy :)

[lizardloop]

so you would recomend using Mandrake's built in Internet Connection Sharing??

[z0mbix]

Originally posted by lizardloop:
<STRONG>so you would recomend using Mandrake's built in Internet Connection Sharing??</STRONG>

if you're not bothered about learning how it all works then yes.

[Infrastructure]

I you don't have the time or the wish to learn how to setup a linux firewall/router in detail, I can recommend this distribution:

IPCOP (http://www.ipcop.org)

IPCOP requires a own computer, but an old lowend pentium machine will do just fine.

[Molecule Man]

The Mandrake Connection sharing works really well. It sets your Local LAN Ethernet to be a DHCP Server, so it doesn't matter what OS os running inside your network.

[lizardloop]

Thanks for all your help.
I'm currently downloading Mandrake 8.2 (60k/s god I love broadband). Going to use its built in wizard thingy.
I'll let you all know how it goes when this is done.

[lizardloop]

got it working
mandrakes ICS wizard worked like a dream
Thanx dudez

[mangeli]

Originally posted by Molecule Man
The Mandrake Connection sharing works really well. It sets your Local LAN Ethernet to be a DHCP Server, so it doesn't matter what OS os running inside your network.

Even if the IP was hard coded, it wouldn't matter which os he's running inside the network.