[olug] home network

[Jeff Hinrichs]

Nate,
Do you have a broad band connection (cable/dsl)?  If so, do yourself a favor
and buy a linksys router.
If your dual boot machine is going to serve as the gateway you'll need to do
it twice, once in *nix and once in doze.
It ain't worth the hassle when you can get a 4 port 10/100 switch/router for
~$100.

I know money doesn't grow on trees but sometimes that hassle isn't worth it,
especially if the computer routing is going to be booting back and forth.

-Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate" <tbrownarcher at cox.net>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:54 PM
Subject: [olug] home network


> I finally got linux on theinternet.  I'm into something new now.
> I have a dual boot system with windows on the other side, 2 nic cards
> one of which is connected to the internet and the other I wish to
> connect to my second computer in a network. The other computer is a
> single boot system with windows and one nic card I wish to connect to
> the first computer in a way that I can read and write both direction and
> can get on the internet with both computers.
>
> Is this possible without a hub or router?  If not at the very least I
> want to be able to talk back and forth between the two computers in a
> home network and would reluctantly settle for only the one uning the
> internet.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Nate
>
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