On 1/22/02 12:57 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/21/02 8:26 PM, "M. Tamer �zsu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> However, I don't quite understand Paul's remark about OS X won't letting me >> share the same external router. I am running a router (MacSense Pro) >> connected to my DSL modem and I have four things connected to the router: my >> printer, my wired G4, my old Lombardi, and Airport. There are three more >> machines running off the Airport right now. Of the five machines that are >> running, two are running OS X (10.1.2), one is running 9.2, one 9.1 and the >> last W2K (yes, I hate to admit it, but I have one of those too). So, OS X is >> very happy being connected to a router that it is sharing with other >> devices. > > Can they all be connected to the internet at the same time? "Router" was > probably the wrong word. I don't have my own router. But I can't connect > both my computers to each other via the internet through the same ethernet > hub. I can connect either one that way, and I can connect the two together > as a local network through the hub. A level-3 Apple tech explained to me > that without OS X Server, it was impossible to connect them via the > internet. In fact, if one is connected to the internet, I usually need to > reboot it before I can connect the two together trough the hub. It _is_ a > very cheap hub, but... Yes, using a router I can. The problem with the hub solution is that hubs are "dumb" multiplexing devices. So, if you need to have >1 machine connect to the Internet at the same time, you have two choices with the hub: (1) you'll have to get (and pay for) an IP number from your ISP for each machine, (2) you connect an airport base station to your hub and put airport cards to each of your machines. In the second case, the airport base can be configured to distribute IP numbers and it can use NAT to share the one IP connection it has to the outside world (each machine has to be set up to get its IP number via DHCP from the Airport base). I use a router because I have machines (such as an older Powerbook) that can't take an airport card and have to be wired to the Internet. In my case, the router is the IP distributor (it also works as a firewall). ==Tamer -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
