Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
Since there seems to be anti-switch sentiment, I've edited my original reply to a more conventional broadband router. Still nice and cheap.
But it's still a switch on the lan-side.... no getting away from it.

Honestly, I cant think of a good reason not to go with a hardware solution for Internet sharing. Using ICS to make an XP workstation available to the Internet is just frightening to me....

I suppose there are some good Linux solutions, but why bother? You can spend just a few bucks and get a reliable device that's virtually plug&play.