I don't know if this was answered or not, so I'll put my 10 cents in..
I tried this once.. the best I could achieve was to make both the outside systems see the PIII and vice versa, but the two outside machines could not see each other. I didn't play around with routing though, conceivably, setting some static routs may have fixed that.. the question you have to ask though, is why? hubs are really really cheap.. (a 4 port 10baseT hub is less then the price of two network cards.) and you can have a decent setup. rgds frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Adams Sent: Sunday, 2 June 2002 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] A cheap home network to play with. I have the P3 500 box running 8.2 at present. I have been given two P1 100 machines. I want to have a go at setting up a network with them. Ideally a hub is the way to go and it allows expansion. But i have Scottish ancestors and this is more of the nature of an experiment than anything else. So could i put two NICs in the P3, each one connected to a NIC in a P1 box? I will get one P1 running 8.2 working for my flatmate to use the printer on the P3 and perhaps load W95 or W98SE on the other to learn about SaMBa. -- Michael
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