Chris Glover chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk wrote:
1.) I don't trust USB becuase I have NEVER seen it work reliably under windows or linux.
It works as reliably as the rest of my peripherals. Being able to hotplug it reliably is a big plus, too, when trying to debug crap hardware. Maybe the drivers have improved since you last tried it?
3.) In order to avoid using NAT on the router, as the linux machine already does this for me, and I'm not sure how NATing data twice will affect it.
It'll be as fine as NATing it once.