Can SMC Barricade BOTH SHARE Cable Modem AND peer to peer???

[DaveR]

I have 2 NICS in my main machine. One goes to a cable modem and the other to a 10/100 Switch.

I use WINGATE on the main machine and can share the Cable Modem with all other machines. I also can do p-p on the machines and share files and the printer.

I am tired of having the Main machine on all the time just to have my wife print a page, or get her e-mail. So my question is this.....

If I get an SMC Barricade router (with print sharing and modem sharing), and connect all systems, cable modem, printer and dialup modem to it, can I...

1. Use any machine with WINFAX?

2. Besides sharing Cable Modem, can I still do p-p...all machines that are on can see each others files without me using the switch I still have? ie: router will share resources AND files? I can take out 2nd NIC in main machine.

3. If so, I assume Netscape will now have the proxies off! Also, e-mail/news will be normal too and I do not have to configure it on "remote" systems as #mail@192.168.0.1?

TIA...just getting tired of having the main system on all the time! If this works, I can put printer on X10 and she does not even have to go into main room to turn printer on!

 

[DaveR]

One last question.

Cable Modem is 10Mb, so the nic I have it on is only 10MB. If I can eliminate my 10/100 switch for p-p. I can use that NIC and take out the one the cable modem is now on.

I assume if I put this all on a 10/100 nic, that my p-p (if it works) will be at 100MB. Someone said I needed to tell @Home that I switched NICs so they can note the MAC. I thought they only cared about the Cable Modem's MAC address.

 

[Ben]

1. Use any machine with WINFAX?
I don't know.

2. Besides sharing Cable Modem, can I still do p-p...all machines that are on can see each others files without me using the switch I still have? ie: router will share resources AND files? I can take out 2nd NIC in main machine.
a. Yes, the internal switch functions just like your current external.
b. Yes, you won't be using Wingate or using that machine for sharing any more so you can certainly remove the extra NIC. I used Wingate at one time and I like the hardware router solution MUCH better. In fact, I like the W2K ICS better than Wingate also.

3. If so, I assume Netscape will now have the proxies off! Also, e-mail/news will be normal too and I do not have to configure it on "remote" systems as #mail@192.168.0.1?
a. Yes, you would tell your computers to connect through your LAN, rather than using a proxy. Set all your computers up as if it were connected to the cable modem directly.
b. Setup should be fairly painless. You shouldn't have to do any special setup unless you have a computer on your LAN that you want to act as a server on the Internet.

Use your 10/100 NIC and remove the slower one.

You may have to contact @Home about your MAC address. The MAC address is actually linked to your NIC (or router), not your modem.

 

[DaveR]

Thanks, Ben.

I wonder if I can just tell the router which MAC to mimic? Seems to me I switched NICS at one time and all worked when I configured the tcp/ip. I know the ID needs to be the same (C15xxx-a). Just wonder if it is the Modem MAC they use, or the NIC MAC?

Anyway, I think the firewall in the router is a better idea than Wingate!

 

[Ben]

Ahh, I see what your saying now.

Ya, maybe you can get the router to do that. The one I used was with DSL so I didn't have to worry about it.

 

[Wizkid]

I'm in Canada and @home doesn't care about MAC addresses...

Just install the router and it should work.

I just recently got a SMC Barricade 4 port router and had problems when using it with the cable. It would freeze up frequently when trying to use the mapped ports and DMZ. I upgrade the firmware to 1.90E and it almost made it worse

However, Rogers just took over in Ontario and now cable sucks, so I got Sympatico HSE instead and it works perfectly with the router.

 

[DaveR]

Thanks wizkid...I believe that there are many using the SMC on @Home so not sure why you had the problem. Glad it is fixed however.

 

[Grey]

I have the barricade, it was easy as sin, they have added a spot for the CC34585.xx whatever now. All you have do is follow the included manual revision(its the last page on the .PDF)
I have all sharing and Serving on. I had a friend on the local @home thing try and look mine up, He couldnt see it.

 

[Delbert]

Cable modem in to Barricade wan port. PC's to lan ports. Printer to parallel port.No need for 2nd NIC. Works good for me. Barricade can clone MAC if necessary

 

[DaveR]

...but what happened to the $80 SMC Barricade? Have all of the offers expired?