Re: Basic Networking Question

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:17:40 -0500

You're close, but you're missing one piece. For the Internet connection,
this won't work unless your broadband router is doing NAT and allows you
multiple internal connections (which most home accounts don't allow). I'd
pick up a cheap and cheerful broadband firewall/router - a NetGear FR114P is
about $80USD. It will do NAT and DHCP and allow you to share the Internet
connection, as well as protect your network from unauthorized intruders.

Another option, which would require two NICs in one computer, is to use
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). I'm not a fan of this when routers have
gotten so cheap, as it turns one computer into a router and requires that it
be functional and running in order to let the other computer access the
Internet.

"Kagsy" <anonymous@anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
news:u1j$zeICEHA.240@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Dear All
>
> I am trying to create a 2 pc network with one pc connecting to the
internet
> through broadband and the other using the first pc as its LAN connection
to
> the Internet. I have a 3Com Hub, which shows all 3 lights lit up, ie one
for
> the modem to the hub, the hub to my pc and hub to other pc.
>
> At the moment the connections are as follows:
>
> Port 1: My pc to the hub (PC1)
> Port 2: Modem to the hub
> Port 3: Hub to second pc (PC2)
>
> The broadband Internet Connection is through PC1 (Port 1), and I have
tried
> running the Internet wizard on this pc to set up the Network called EGYPT.
> Every time I run the wizard my TCP IP properties manually set an IP
address,
> but after changing the IP address from 'Obtain the IP address
automatically'
> to a static IP address to my broadband connection fails, and when I revert
> back, I once again get my connection back.
>
> My questions are:
>
> Is it important the order of the cable connections through the hub?
> What should my IP settings be?
> Is it enough to run the wizard on the other pc and give the network the
same
> name, ie, EGYPT?
>
> I am sorry if this is basic to you guys, but I am totally new to all this.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Kagsy
>
>

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