Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:48:10
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: what to do with an old PC
Maya,
If you've got the hub, you're already there. You don't need a router unless
you've got either (a) a *lot* of computers (over 250) or (b) you're
conecting two networks together - which you effectively are when you connect
your network to the internet using wingate or smoothwall.
Either of these will happily work as your gateway. On my smoothwall system,
it's set up as a DHCP server which hands out the IP addresses to the other
machines, and the other machines are set up to use the smoothwall address as
the default gateway. They get this automagically from the DHCP stuff. I like
fit-n-forget technology!
Dave needs the hub (I assume) cos he has an RJ45 network connection to ADSL
or cable modem.
Neil
>From: "Maya Rushing Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: what to do with an old PC
>Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:15:52 -0800
>
>Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:15:39 -0500
>From: "Maya Rushing Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: what to do with an old PC
>
>OH, I get it, you still need a hub...okay, I've just bought one of those.
>I
>will have to go research routers now. Thank you!
>
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