From The Screwdriver List: Re: Home Networking problems!

[Brian]

Hello John, I take your point regarding routeing but the Netgear software requires a single NIC in each PC and designates one PC as the gateway whether the internet connection is via a Cable Modem connected to the FS105 or via the internal dial-up modem. Unfortunately Netgear give no technical information to enable a manual set-up of the adapters and protocols and their UK website is still under development.   I cannot put two NICs in one PC because I have no spare slots although I believe it is possible to get a dual NIC. As for the security issue I visited www.grc.com and the Shields Up decided that my system was very secure with all ports closed to intrusion!   Returning to the independence issue I believe that such can be achieved by multiplexing and packet switching over a single bidirectional highway which is all a LAN is after all. I am still looking into the various protocols to see if I can resolve the problems but currently my Cable modem is as dead as a dodo so i'm back on the 56K dial-up!   Brian  ----- Original Message ----- From: John M. Goodman To: Multiple recipients of The_Screwdriver_List Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 11:24 PM Subject: From The Screwdriver List: Re: Home Networking problems! Grab your Phillips, it's... The Latest from The Screwdriver List! I'm sorry if I missed several crucial points in your message--as it appears I did. I was in a bit of a hurry at the time. My concern continues in one area. It seems you have your PCs and your cable modem all on a single LAN and yet you expect to have one of the PCs serve as a gateway. I am not sure it is possible to do this--at least not and also insure good security. If you put two NICs in one PC, then you can accomplish that by running Windows 98SE or WinME or Win2K and running its Internet Connection Sharing module--or by running some third-party software to accomplish the same thing. But trying to do that with a single NIC presents some pretty severe, if not insuperable, problems. When sharing the modem connection, you had the independent route out of your one PC via the modem--independent of the route via the LAN to the other PC. So that configuration can work just fine. It's just when you are using the cable modem that I think you need more hardware somewhere. (And I continue to recommend a firewall appliance.)       John At 05:02 PM 5/16/01 +0100, you wrote: >Hello John, >First let me say thanks for looking at my post but I think you read it so >fast that you missed some of the details which you say are missing! ======= John M. Goodman, Ph.D., author of "Peter Norton's Inside the PC," Seventh Edition (Sams 1997, ISBN 0-672-31041-4), and Eighth Edition (Sams 1999, ISBN 0-672-31532-7). ======= ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ That's all for now from The Screwdriver List "Red Stripe to Pin 1" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++