the box with the modem should have a second nic, whose address will be the gateway (eg 192.168.x.y) of your local network (eg 192.168.x.0, netmask 255.255.255.0). it needs ip forwarding enabled in /etc/sysctl.conf. if it has a firewall that'll likely need attention. you can set it up as a dhcp server for your local network, or just give each box a fixed address (eg 192.168.x.yy). you can use google's 8.8.8.8 for a dns server. wired and wifi may all interconnect on your local network. NetworkMangler is a relatively new player in all this, you can use it or not. search "local network <yourdistro> howto" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20141217/765fee86/attachment.html>