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You'll need to plug two devices into a hub
or switch which will then plug into the cable
or DSL modem. If you want to stick with Linksys
routers only then indeed it will become plural -
"routers". If you have an old 486 or whatever
laying around in a closet it will make a real nice
router booting Linux from a floppy.
I use Coyote Linux on my router.
It's a floppy based Linux distro designed specifcally
for use as a router. In fact some of the routers
you see at Best Buy actually have a Coyote
or LRP derivative inside on a flash chip.
If I were setting it up I'd sell the Linksys or
give it to a buddy and setup some old POS
computer with 2-4 ethernet cards as the router.
With 4 cards I'd have one for each of the external
IP addresses and one for each of the internal
networks.
You'll have two internal networks so that you can determine
which machines go through which external IP.
With two cards I'd set up aliases under Linux so that
they appear to be 4 different cards.
You'll probably need a local Linux guru to
set it up for you. Try calling soemone with your
local Linux Users Group.
You might find someone who would do it
in trade for the Linksys router if you get
really, really lucky.
If you don't have any luck finding someone local
someone like myself could set up most of
the router config remotelly and walk you
through which wire gets plugged in where.
You'd need to get a computer with at least
a 1 GB hard drive though, then stick in
a Linux install disk and just do a minimal
install that I could then remotely access
and customize.
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