Wirelesslan setup.

[VeeDubb]

Solviong part of the problem is always better than making a new one. I'll look into NAT. Question, if I just wanted browsing, how would I set up proxy? Braowsing is my main concern, everything else is secondary.

[garyng]

just install the proxy server on KNOPPIX(may be it is there already, waiting to be enabled) and point all your clients(XP, Pocket PC etc.) to that machine in the browser.

[RockMumbles]

Essentially what a router does is remember who made a network request and to whom and as it recieves a packet it sends it back to the requesting machine. This is done in linux with ip-masquerading using either ip-chains or ip-tables.

You may want to look into these two packages:

shorewall - Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall)
shorewall-doc - Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall) Documentation

they are available as debs, so you could apt-get them, I haven't used shorewall but I've read that it is easy to get working.

I use a 486 w/16mb of ram and a floppy drive running freesco as my router, with a dialup connection.

rock