Home networking

[caffrey]

We've got two PC's, one running win2K Pro w/ 2 nic's (dynamic IP from @Home on one, 192.168.0.1 on the other) the other PC is running win 98 w/ IP 192.168.0.2. win2K seems to get confused by the two cards and doesn't allow me any internet access with the local NIC enabled... when i disable it, the net works fine but obviously no local connectivity. is there a way to set up the two cards so windows knows to use the one card for Internet and the other card for local connectivity?? I thought different subnets might work, but I don't understand those that well, and windows seems to only allow 255.255.255.x(which is what @home uses too...) any ideas?? we'd like to eventually use my PC as a internet gateway for his but... one thing at a time i guess
thanks

 

[sohcrates]

Nic #1 (WAN) - only have tcp/ip enabled...disable "client for MS networks" and disable any "file and printer sharing

Nic #2 (LAN) - enable client, tcp/ip, and file and printer sharing.

See if that helps...i'm running 2 nics in my win2k box that way w/ no problems.

 

[caffrey]

the local connectivity works great thanks! are you using this setup for internet access for both computers?? couldn't get that part to work... set up my local IP as his gateway.. but somehow need to let my computer forward his http requests... not sure how to do that... is it possible to configure it in windows? or do we need sygate or winproxy or something like that....

 

[sohcrates]

I use 2 NICs in my win2k server box to route the internet for all the computers in my apartment....i use NAT, but you could simply use ICS for win2k pro.

Just enable ICS in tcp/ip properties for your external NIC, and keep your internal NIC setup with 192.168.0.1 and subnet 255.255.255.0

....then leave all the routing computers on "obtain IP address automatically" etc....ICS should automatically assign everything.