When a computer receives an IP Address from the DHCP server, it often receives extra information such as listings for DNS server, Default gateway, BootP server, etc. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a way of assigning IP Addresses to clients on a network, but networking is often useless without this extra information.

This a short video about how to use a Linux distro called IPCop as a gateway for your virtual machines. I wanted to simulate a real network with a real gateway without dedicating a Gig or RAM to an ISA server. This Linux distribution runs on a 386 processor with 32 MB of Ram. The [...]