<<Low end pentium will definitly handle it. Our nat box is a decrepid 486. It's running dhcp, dns, printer sharing (via lpd) If you're going to autodial don't use diald or similar soultions. pppd has a quite useful demand dialing mode. Here's how I did it under Debian: <snip> It's been a long time since I've had to use this, so no promises as to wether it works or not. As for NAT compatiblity, we have no problems playing quake3, UT, StarCraft, etc on one IP. Linux IPMasq has modules to get full functionality out of other apps (irc, icq, quake and quake2, etc...) and ipautofw (or whatever it is...) should handle simple stuff. Some games may still require special ipchains rules, most of the documentation I've found is for 2.0 kernels though. >> Seems simple enough. I've only really played around with kppp, and just recently within the last couple of days started to learn wvdial setup. Since I don't plan on using X or any windows managers on the machine, I'm learning from the ground up on this. Have had my nose in the networking text the past few days some makes sense, others require more deciphering. Still trying to find an answer to my question of if I can auto dial using two modems (one internal, one external) simultaneously. Looking at the setup, seems like it may be possible given a few extra lines. Hopefully I'm right on that. Also, need to figure out how to configure my internal non-winmodem to work. Back to the books. Thanks for the help. Shawn