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this is really odd.
You should be able to plug both machines into the Linksys ports, and plug the cable modem into the WAN port.
Tell the linksys to act as a DHCP server
Tell your machines to use the DCHP server, and set the gateway to the IP address of the router (the internal address, NOT the address from Comcast - should be 192.168.1.1).
Each machine should then get it's own IP from the router, and using the router defaults, you should get 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3.
The only other change you should have to make to the router is if you want to run a web server or something on one of the machines. You'll need to tell the router what IP address to route traffic on a particular port. If the machine running a web server is 192.168.1.2, you'll need to set Port 80 to that IP in the port forwarding config section of the router.
If not, if all traffic starts at either machine and is outgoing (web, e-mail, ftp server, whatever), the router will handle forwarding the packets automagically.
This really should be a 5 minute process at the worst!
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