Networking : how to bridge two NICs to share internet access ?

[Alvin Thompson]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> 2) later, when I actually come round to building a home network, I will
> buy a switch (sounds like it's sufficient from your description) and
> some cables...

take my advice: for the cost of a good switch, you can buy a Linksys 
WRT54G wireless router, which does the entire job and much more (DNS, 
DHCP etc), is easy to set up, and is so powerful that you can run linux 
on it as well! there are entire sites dedicated to flashing bigger and 
badder features on this thing. and they're so cheap! these things have 
definitely stolen the routing job from linux boxes in the last few years.

-alvin