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Hooking up my equiptment to use as a shared internet connection??

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TacoBoy

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Hi all,

Once again, I am stumb as to how to properly hookup the equiptment that will enable me to use my dsl connection as a shared connection to my other machines. The main machine and gateway to the interent is running Win2k.

I have the following equiptment: a dsl modem connected to the NIC on my Win2k machine. Another NIC on my laptop and a 4-port hub. Now how do I hookup these equiptment, making my Wink machine as the main gateway machine?

Thanks for your help


James
 
Well first of all I would call 1-800-ABCDEFG.. but to answer your question you need to have an external DSL router/modem to use a network hub, and then I am sure you can figure it out from there. Also there is a question if you use DHCP or static ip addresses. If you can provide some more information I will be happy to help you out.
 
I thought that on Win2K machine, you don't need an dsl router or such sort. I thought that it can use the hub from the home network that I created. Also, I was told that I should set my other computer to obtain an IP automatically, and not static. I got this information from the windows2000 magazine; Extra edition (summer 2000). In the article they never mention any router or such sort and told me to select obtain automatic IP. They never mentioned how to connect the products together. Am I missing something? Please let me know.

Thank you,

James
 
Here's the easiest way in my opinion...get another NIC, slap it in the machine with the DSL connection. Make sure the DSL is all ready and running, and then go to the My Network Places settings, and on the NIC that doesn't have the DSL hooked up, give it a static IP like 192.168.0.1, Subnet 255.255.255.0. Since you already have a hub, plug a regular CAT5 cable from the NIC to the hub. On the laptop, go to the network properties, and then give it a static IP of 192.168.0.2 and a Subnet of 255.255.255.0. Make sure both work groups are the same, and that the names of each are different. Reboot, and both should be good to go as far as networking goes. Then all you need is some proxy software...Win98SE has the ICS (Internet Connection Sharing), but I don't know if Win2000 has that. Each software is gonna have it's specific quirks, but with this setup you should be golden!
 
IMO, Windows2000 did ICS much better than 98SE.

Smart's got most of what you need to get started.

After you put the second card in, go to networking and on the main internet card, enable internet sharing on it. Give the second card a static IP address. If I'm not mistaken, I believe Windows 2000 will automatically give the second NIC 192.168.0.1

On the client machine, set it to AUTOmatically get IP address. It didn't like it if I set it to 192.168.0.2 or anything else, but if it got it automatically it works just fine. And by having it(client) go automatically, I can boot into Windows 2000 OR Windows ME(host) and the client can also boot into Win98, ME, and 2000 without having any problems.

That should get you going unless I've forgotten something important. Let us know if you get it running well.
 
Damn, I coulda used this thread yesterday. Fortunately I accidentaly figured it out 🙂 It was the "Obtain IP address automatically option" found on the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties page. Very important to have that selected versus putting in your own ip address.

Actually you don't need a hub, but you do need 2 nic's in the sys. with dsl (host) and 1 nic in the other sys. (client). If you can find a cross-over cable you can bypass the hub, but since you already have a hub might as well put it to good use...LAN Party anyone?

 
Hi all,

Just wanted to say thanks for all your help and suggestions. I found out how another way to hook up the system. I just used two nics and connect the dsl modem to the hub in the uplink slot and enabling it. Then I just hook both system to the hub. Then setup the software as normal.

Thanks again,

James
 
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