Re: home networking with router

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From: Ken B (none_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:49:38 -0400

I think he may want to connect all the computers to the router, and place
his computer on the DMZ.

To do this, navigate to your router's management webpage, then (on
Linksys)... click the Advanced tab at the top, then click DMZ Host, then you
can put in the IP address of your 'gaming' computer. Just keep in mind that
doing this will place your computer on the internet directly, and pretty
much anyone can connect to the computer, and try/succeed to hack into it
using various exploits.

If you take this option, BE SURE TO RUN WINDOWS UPDATE OFTEN! Also keep
your virus definitions up to date!

You may want to give yourself an address of 192.168.0.200 (or something high
that the router should never reach on its own), to make sure that another
computer doesn't accidentally get assigned the address of your gaming
computer and get placed on the DMZ.

Good luck!

Ken

"Chuck" <none@example.net> wrote in message
news:a29vn0hhmf9akv16mefauff0vjtn02r08v@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:45:05 -0700, "MrHappy" <*email_address_deleted*>
> wrote:
>
>>i want to set up a home network. i game alot so i wish to allow my host
>>computer to be the gamer. i would like to run the other networked
>>computers
>>from a router that would be on the shared line from the host.
>>MODEM>HOST>ROUTER>SEVERAL OTHER PCS. WILL THIS WORK?
>
> If you want to provide internet service to a number of computers, and have
> broadband (or PPP compatible dialup), using a router / modem directly
> connected
> to all computers is preferable.
>
> If you want to share service from the host, this is possible, but will
> involve a
> bit of extra work. You'll have to make the host an ICS (Internet
> Connection
> Sharing) server. Then,
> 1) Disable DHCP on the router.
> 2) Connect the ICS server, and all ICS clients, as peers to the LAN side
> of the
> router.
> 3) Change the LAN address of the router from 192.168.0.1 to something
> like
> 192.168.0.99 (gotta keep it on 192.168.0/24 subnet).
> 4) Setup the LAN interface on the ICS server as 192.168.0.1.
> 5) Setup any ICS clients to use DHCP for all settings (obtain IP address
> and
> DNS servers automatically).
> 6) If you're going to do file sharing, either disable ICF on the ICS LAN
> connection (not recommended for a wireless router), or open the following
> ports
> in ICF for the LAN connection: TCP 139, 445; UDP 137, 138, 445.
>
> Using the host for game playing (which involves intense CPU and network
> traffic)
> may conflict with its role as an ICS server. You'll have to see how that
> works
> out.
>
> Please let us know how this works out for you.
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

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