new to opensuse 11.1

And i need to do…

i have a mixed scenario right now.
I have only three computer on home network.

i).vista accer travelmate 4720 laptop loaded with vista sp1 ultimate

ii).normal pc : this pc is loaded with opensuse 11.x linux but this pc has 2 NICs I have connected both with a switch and internet.can I use one NIC as private and another NIC as public to access internet?

iii). normal pc : its loaded with win xp sp2

how to set my network.
I have connected each NIC with a D-Link switch.And the ordinary D-Link switch is connected with DataOne Nokia Siemens network c2110 modem.

But problems are that

  1. each time i can connect only one PC at a time.

2)opensuse 11.x is not connected to the specified modem ever…by adsl seup command.

Every time i am trying to connect to network suse is saying you need to configure your NIC.how to do that?

please help as soon as you can…
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I would personally, use a router rather than a switch. The ADSL modem connects to the router upline. Then the PC’s connect to the wired connection points. The Laptop can be connected wirelessly if you have a wireless router or wired connection if not. Eg. a DLink 615 router can connect 4 wired PC’s and up to 96 wireless ones. Another option might be to connect 2 PC’s direct and the PC with second nic tie into switch or router with Laptop. Posible config are almost endless

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Rick:)

You shall configure one of NICs for extranet using pppoe and then following the ICS configuration to be a router machine.
For you reference:
BSD/Linux Tutorial Zone: Using pppoe connect to internet (KDE and Gnome) on openSUSE 11.1, 11, 10.3

ICS - openSUSE

Not a problem but expected behavior with your setup.

As stated before, either configure one of your machines to work as a router or (recommended for several reasons) buy a dedicated router and replace the switch.