Sharing iNet with 2 NICs ...

[steveox]

Hi,

I'm at school in the dorms and hubs are not allowed. I'm often helping set-up / repair comps and also I have a separate laptop and the wireless signal in the dorm is very poor. I currently have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe with the built on gigabit lan. I installed my old 10/100 realtek adapter in it as well. I want to hook the school's iNet up to that and then run the realtek adapter to a second PC so that has internet. Is this possible?

We don't want to use a router because that will block accessing shares via the school's network as well as mess up connecting to multiplayer games. Since I only am usually using one other comp I figured the 2 nic idea was the best.

I've heard a switch should work, however, if I don't have to shell out an extra 20 bucks I don't really want to. I have spare NICs and cable at school already.l

Thanks for all help in advance. I consider myself average with networking and also creative so feel free to spit out ideas that may help or correct any wrong asumptions I may have.

-steveo

 

[steveox]

bump?

 

[screw3d]

Bump because I want to know too.

 

[mykah89]

I did somthing similiar to this, had to set up windows internet connection sharing,, was a pain but i got it to work, also when the first PC with my cable modem hooked into was shutdown it left the second one networkless, was overall a pain in my butt.

 

[amdskip]

A hub will work just fine for a use like that. We use them all the time in the dorms here. Why are they not alloweed?