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Here is the deal:

My neighbor (a couple doors down) and I both have cable modems. We want to network our networks together and still keep both our cable modems running.

My Network [named 'inet' from default from Freesco]:
Modem--Freesco Router--Hub--3 Clients

His Network [named grp1 for no specific reason]:
Modem--Win2K--Hub--4 Clients

What we want to do is uplink from my hub to his hub and network our networks together.

Question:
Will there be a conflict to where our networks know which cable modem to refer to for sending and receiving info?

I know someone is bound to say, "Why don't you just cancel one of the modems?" We may actually do that but first we want to set this up and see if it works. I like using Freesco as a DHCP and he likes using win2k.

Thanks
 
Well, which cable modem your PCs access is determined by the gateway of each PC...

So, as long as your FreeSCO server and his win2k server has different IPs, and you set the gateways of the other PCs according, you should have no problems...

however, you may have to be careful of IP conflicts when you link both your networks together.
ie. both your servers may be 192.168.0.1
 
Okay, my FreeSCO uses addresses 192.168.0.1 through 30.

And I think that he uses the same gateway, so we can just change one of the networks to 10.0.0.1 whatever?

Thanks
 
If you do that you'll need a router between the two networks, because you will be on two logical netwokrs. the 192.168.0.x and the 10.10.10.x networks.
Set his dhcp to assign out 192.168.0.31 thru 192.168.0.60 so you'll both be on the 192.168.0.x network.

That setup will actually give out ip's to any client from either dhcp server. So if yours is down, your clients could use his and vice-versa.
 
Cool, that was a thought that I was having. We could stay on the same gateway but make sure our servers assign the same addresses.

Mine is set 192.168.0.1-30 So then we can make sure that he set his from 192.168.0.31-60.

Cool that should work, we are going to try it today!😀
 
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