Win2k, @home, and a hub

[KidViciou$]

hi, i want to setup my comp so that i have my cable modem in the uplink of my 12 port 10/100 hub, and then i plug in all my ocmps into the ports. i hear that to do this, you would need two nics in the mai ncomp, one for the hub, and one for the modem.

if this is the only way, then fine. but i dont want to use any third party software, i want to use straight win2k, and 98.

another way i konw of is setting up a linux box as my DHCP server, but i want to do that later. this is more for learnign than for actual use, although i will use it. let me know how i can set this up. thanks.

 

[pdo]

W2K and 98SE have the Internet Connection Sharing features. So you shouldn't have any problems. But hardware router will always work better though.

 

[KidViciou$]

but i encounter a problem when i plug my modem into the hub. i cant connect. its only when i have a direct connection to the modem that i can use the net.

 

[fergiboy]

You can't plug the modem into the hub because @home only allows one computer to access the internet at a time. You must use ics. have a crossover going from your computer to the hub, and connect the modem to the same computer. You have two nics in one computer right?

 

[office boy]

To connect your modem to a hub, you need to use a regular patch cable, or plug the crossover cable (what your modem has now) into the uplink port, and crossover the crossover.

This does work fine, as i have setup @home for a 2 computer LAN with ICS doing this exact same thing.

 

[BCYL]

What you need to do is this:
cable modem -> Server computer with 2 NICs -> hub

You can plug the server PC into one of the regular ports of the hub using a normal CAT5 cable (not crossover)... Your server computer has to have 2 NICs, one for the cable modem, the other for the hub.

Then you configure Windows ICS to enable the other computers on the LAN to share that one internet access.

 

[Scarpozzi]

The reason it won't work plugged directly into the hub is because you have to use what's called NAT. Network Address Translation and ip mascarading. Pretty much what you are doing is using ONE computer/device to connect to the internet. This device will create internal network ip addresses that are translated then to the external network(internet). You can do this through a server or a router.

 

[KidViciou$]

i think ill jsut get a second nic and do it that way.

i just dont have time to fool around like i used to