What piece of equipment do I need ?

[Total]

I have a small home network consisting of 4 desktops, a laptop, a LinkSYS cable/router, a Netgear hub, a print server, and a cable modem.

Everything inside on my LAN works very smoothly, but I want to run a gaming server on the internet. Now I know that the LinkSYS has a lot of problems running gaming servers and I don't know enough about networking and proticals yet(reading other forums told me this). I don?t really want to pull out my hair over this so I have decided to go the easy rout. It will only cost me $7 a month for another IP from COX so I want to put my gaming server outside my LinkSYS.

My question is.... If I have two IP?s coming into my house and through my cable modem, what piece of equipment will I need to direct one IP to the server and the other to the LinkSYS ? I?m a little confused about a switch, router, gateway....

 

[Ladi]

A hub.

See this post for details.

However, if you set your game server as DMZ on the linksys, you'll probably be able to run the server just fine without any issues. The linksys docs are pretty clear on how to do this.

~Ladi

 

[twren]

Cable Modem
|
Hub
/ \
Router Gaming Server
|
Hub
|
Everything Else

To make these things communicate use MS File and Print sharing and bind ipx not tcp/ip to it. Also I would recommend using a switch where the router and the gaming server are. @Home uses DHCP to assign the ip's so all that they will give you is a specific Computer name put it in the gaming server and it will pull a second ip

 

[Russ]

You already have the equipment you need: Your hub. Run the cable modem to the uplink port on the hub, and run a patch cable from a standard port on the hub to the WAN port on the Linksys. Run a patch from the hub to the server assigned the second IP address. Have the other systems plugged in to the Linksys.

EDIT: Damn, you people type fast!

Russ, NCNE

 

[Total]

What should I get if I wanted to put two gaming servers on that one IP but have different ports forwarded ? Another router or a switch?

I am not really intirested in a firewall for this one just a simple solid piece of equipment.

What are my alternitives? I am willing to spend $200. to $300.

 

[twren]

If you want to split that secondary ip again you will need another router.
..........cable modem
...............|......
.............hub....
........../.......\
......router......router
......./............\
....network1.......network 2

A couple things though. If you are going to run two off of the second ip address what is the point. I have two ip's on my system just becaus I would rather pay $5 a month than introduce a $120 piece of equipment that may fail or become obsolete. I would understand if you just wanted your gameserver on a ip away from the port forwarding, but if you are going to do that anyways why not just put everything behind the existing router.