Multiple IP's, one NAT box?

[Sensor]

My situation at school is that I and a roommate have two IP addresses and 5 computers. I can set up a Win2k box to do NAT and make it 4-computers-1-IP + 1-comp-1-IP. Alternately, I would like to know if I can set it up to have the 5 computers use 2 IP's depending on load. It's sorta far-fetched, but I'm not sure if it can even be done. Anyone tips?

--Ed

 

[Norssak]

Short answer: No
Semi-short answer: Not worth the effort, you probly got plenty of bandwidth chances of you maxing out there are slim.

 

[JackMDS]

Actually you can,but it will cost you ($400).

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[Garion]

Actually, there's an even easier way. Get TWO typical broadband routers, one for each external IP. Set the internal IP addresses so that one 192.168.0.1 and the other 192.168.0.2 then use an uplink port or a crossover cable to connect them together. Set your PC's default gateway(s) to be .1 and have your roommate use .2. That way, you're still on one network but you get out to the rest of the world from two different source IP's and you can both map back whatever ports you want.

- G

 

[Sensor]

Thank you for the advice.

The reason I'm looking to do it is because here at school we have a download limit: exceed downloading 1.5GB/24 hours and you get your internet shut down for a week.

I figured out how to make Win2K server (which will replace my SMC Barricade soon) "shut down" the port at 1.5GB so that I don't get shut down for a week. I'd like to make Win2K use two connections so that I can get a 3.0GB download limit. I assume that putting two NIC's in the Win2K machine and setting different computers to use different gateways will work, and I'll try that next.

Thanks.
--Ed

 

[Nightfall]

1.5 gig in 24 hours? JEEZ!

That is a heck of a lot of bandwidth!

Unless you are thinking about running some kind of warez server, I wouldn't worry about it. 🙂