Cable Modem Sharing

[old.Tempest]

Not sure if this is the right thread to post on or not... <<ponders>>

Anyway, at a guess many of you have a few computers in ya house, are any of you using a cable modem to get outside? Do both machines share the connection?

If so I wouldn't mind a point in the right direction on how you set it up, as at the moment the house is going through a 56k modem, but for some reason i have a niggling feeling that I need a little more than a standard proxy? Guessing that the network card with the modem attached will need to be on the ISP's subnet rather than my own.

(thought just poped into my head) Would making the second network card the default gateway for all the machines work?

Hope the question makes some sense.

TemPesT

 

[Xavier]

easy

it's best to have the 'gateway' pc running windows 2000 - you will end up with an invisible NAT gateway...

use one NIC to connect the pc to the network

use another NIC to connect to the cablemodem

use two DIFFERENT nic's

e.g. a 3COM and DLink

don't use an ISA NIC- it won't work..

select the connection that uses the cablemodem in control panel and goto the properties for it...

click on the sharing tab (it appears when you have two PCI nic's installed...) and click to enable sharing on that card...

easy!

on the client machines just set the default gateway on tcp/ip to the IP address of the gateway machine (use dhcp on the nic with the cablemodem but ASSIGN IP's for the LAN PC'S... remember to use the gateway pc's LAN IP not the one assigned by the cablemodem)

I only say to use two different cards so that you can determine which is which in windows, otherwise it's fiddly!

 

[old.SUp3rFM]

I have cable and two comps sharing it, both with w2k. Me and my bro play UT online and instead of our 100ms ping, we get 120/140ms... So, not a big difference

 

[Embattle]

If I had cable I would buy a cheap router.

 

[Testin da Cable]

good dedicated routers/firewalls aren't cheep [birdie].

I have a low-powered box running linux 'tween me and the internet. The lil guy acts as a firewall wiv packet relay/nat duties. All outside communication is disabled, unless generated by me/ok'd by me.

This box does the same as a dedicated firewall and only cost me 150 guilders ~40 quid.

The above only cos I'm ignorant of what a good webramp costs over there in britannia.

-tdc

 

[Xavier]

If you have two PC's then you wouldn't need a router and would be stupid to use one, in a home with two computers a second network card is a wise idea becuase all you need is a crossover cable to join them, if you bung a router on too you need a hub to plug the router into (unless it's a home LAN router, and believe me they aren't worth it either...

total cost= extra NIC = £10~15
crossover cable=£5max

as opposed to £90 for a decent switch and god knows how much more for the router...

do the math, it makes sense

 

[Testin da Cable]

yup Xavier's right.
to add an extra btw, you can have the 2nd pc be doing all sorts of stuff while you play on pc1 or whatever you'd want.
SUp3rFM does this when he and his brother play online.

-tdc

[Edited by testin_da_cable on 06-10-00 at 20:18]