I suppose that is true. I have a common set of ports I open up each time I set one up, but obviously - the more someone does that is "non-standard" the more work that is. I still think for most of the home users I set up this way, this is a very good choice.
-----Original Message----- From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 5:13 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Networking Help for Dummy Bottlenecks, insanely dumbed down terminology, to the point that someone who can reprogram a cisco 7206 (me heh) from the command line doesn't know what the hell they are talking about, and the fact that I have to go into the router whenever I want to open up a port. The last one is a killer. I don't feel like spending the extra time for every service. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, May 29, 2003, 4:36:33 PM, you wrote: JR> You hate those home routers? I've probably been involved with installing at JR> least ten of the things, different brands, some wireless, and they're sweet JR> as hell. What is there to hate about them? JR> Josh JR> -----Original Message----- JR> From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] JR> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:29 PM JR> To: CF-Community JR> Subject: Re: Networking Help for Dummy JR> I'd recommend a netgear or linksys like everyone else but there is a JR> simpler, perhaps slightly more expensive route, but I like it because I JR> hate those home routers, and I won't pony up for a decent router that JR> will handle a 3Mbit cable connection, and too lazy to set up a linux JR> router :) JR> I have two nics in each computer, and buy an extra ip from the isp JR> (this is why it might be more expensive. depends on how much your isp JR> charges for an ip) for each system. Then put a local (192.168...) ip JR> on one nic and an internet ip on the other. JR> Most _switches_ ( those blue netgears are flaky) can route two JR> networks at the same time no problem, so no need for two switches, or JR> a router. JR> Instant network, with no bottlenecks, and no worrying about screwing JR> with the router if me or anyone else wants to use irc, a p2p, an im, JR> or anything else. JR> -- JR> jon JR> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] JR> Thursday, May 29, 2003, 3:24:18 PM, you wrote: HP>> I want to set up my home network with Internet Connection Sharing for JR> three HP>> machines and a cable connection. The "gateway" machine is a Windows 2000 HP>> Professional machine. There's also a Win 98 box and an XP box. HP>> I did this once before with different machines but have forgotten some JR> of HP>> the details. I guess I need two network cards on the connected box. I am HP>> totally confused at this point so won't even try to explain my limited HP>> understanding. Can anyone tell me how to do this? In easy point form :-) HP>> thanks, HP>> Patrick JR> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
