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Network Question



Ok, I've been using RedHat and Mandrake for about a year now and understand the basics(I think), X, KDE, and etc..
I'm not sure how to do this, but this is what I want to do:
I have 1 Connection to my School LAN and 1 IP Address.  I want to hook up 4 computers to this, one for a Q3 Server, a WinNT system, a win2000 system and a linux & proxy/firewall server for the other three.  Which is the best way?
I want each computer to run through the proxy or firewall or something and only use one IP.  I was hoping each computer could use the same IP with different ports or something through the proxy or firewall.  I don't know much about proxies and firewalls.  How can I do this?  Do I need to have one proxy/firewall computer with 2 nic cards, one to the School LAN and one to a hub for the rest of the computers(FIG 1) or just a hub for all of them with the proxy hooked up to the hub(FIG 2)?
 
=================================================================
FIG 1:
             SCHOOL LAN
                       ^
                       |
                       |
     ---------------------------------                         ----------------                                -----------------------------
     |   PROXY SERVER   |   <--------------->   |   HUB     |        <---------------->     | OTHER COMPS  |
     |                                |                         |              |        <----------------->    |                           |
     ---------------------------------                         -----------------        <---------------->    ------------------------------
 
 
FIG 2:
 
             SCHOOL LAN
                       ^
                       |
                       |
              --------------                         -------------------  
              |   HUB  |   <--------------->   |   PROXY    |  
              |            |                         |   SERVER |   
              |            |                         -------------------
              |            |
              |            |   <-------------->  ----------------
              |            |   <-------------->  | OTHER  |
              |            |   <-------------->  | COMPS |
              --------------                       ---------------- 
 
(No I'm not an artist)
 
Also, what Software could I use to do this in Linux?
I hope I knew enough to explain what I want to do =)
 
Thanks for any help.
-Don Prince

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