Easiest way to share the connection

spend 30 or so dollars and get a router

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

.....or a switch.
-Brett

only if the ISP give you 2 IP's (which most consumer grade broadband ISP's don't)

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

My cable modem provider allows me to connect 2 machines through a 4 port switch. Both of the computers use DHCP and obtain different IP's. I do not pay anything extra.

I know the switches use NAT, but I thought it was interesting to see that they allowed me to lease 2 IP's from their DHCP simultaneously.

<font color=red>Now that I am running RAID 5 I find myself praying for a hard drive failure.</font color=red>