I picked up a cheap pc off of eBay, installed a 30gig hdd, hooked up my
printer, scanner and dsl modem then tied into the household lan to share all
of these. And my other boxes backup to this server's hdd at an average of
75mb/min.
A bit more costly then a router, but yields a whole lot more.
-jm
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Swartzendruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Mandrake8.0 and win4lin3.0 and VNET
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Jon wrote:
>
> > > vnet is a virtual NIC with its own MAC address. this means you need
> > > a second MAC from the cable company, no?
> > >
> > I guess I'm not sure what you mean by 'MAC' address, if you mean a
second IP
> > number yes I have two separate IP numbers from @home, unfortuneately
they are
>
> no, every ethernet card has a MAC address (a physical address). this is
> how ethernet hosts talk to each other (the IP gets mapped to a MAC addr).
> with winsock mode, your win9x session piggybacks on the linux network IP,
> but for vnet, it pretends it's a separate NIC, so it needs a separate IP
> address - if they ain't on the same subnet, oh well...
>
> > not on the same subnet :( @home says that all IP numbers are computer
> > generated and they cannot assign one to me. Hows that for a supposedly
'in
> > the know' company......
>
> doesn't sound 'static' to me :) i guess you're stuck then.
>
> > I guess I'll spring for a Linksys router and hide my two computers
behind it,
> > then I can get rid of the other IP number, save $5.00/month
> >
> >
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