Two computers - one cable modem?

[Lowell]

Can anyone help me with setting up some sort of connection sharing with a
cable modem? This is the first I've ever dealt with such. I had ICS set up
on my dial up before.

I have a Linksys 10/100 Auto-Sensing 8 port Workgroup Hub. I have the cable
modem plugged in to the "uplink" port and my main computer plugged into port
1. Everything works fine. I have a second computer set up and plugged into
port 2. I can see each of the computers on the network, but computer #2
cannot get access to the internet. I do not have ICS running on computer #1
since, I assume, each computer will access the net directly thru the hub.
I'm sure it's some setting in computer #2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail me at
beck...@knology.net .

Thanks

Lowell

[Justin Odom]

The method that you are using requires an additional ip address to be
purchased from your cable provider. ICS shares one address....

Justin

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[Jim Orfanakos]

You will need either:

1) a hardware router/NAT/firewall device (like the Linksys BEFSR11)

or

2) get a 2nd NIC on your "main" PC with some sort of
router/NAT/Proxy/firewall software (like Wingate, WinRoute, WinProxy,
AnalogX, ICS, etc)

or

3) Get another IP address from your ISP (you will still need some Firewall
software like ZoneAlarm, BlackICE, etc)

Check out http://www.practicallynetworked.com for more info.

[Jason Paikowsky]

AFAIK, computer #1 needs a 2nd. NIC. NIC #1 will be talking to the WAN
(cable-modem side to the 'Net), and NIC #2 talks to the LAN (computer #1).
Since your Linksys box is not a router, I think you're gonna need that 2nd.
NIC.

Go to www.practicallynetworked.com for a clear and detailed step-thru on
what you're trying to do.

[][nfern0]

Theres no thinking about it u need a secound NIC and then use a something
like avirt SOHO or winproxy to share the bandwidth

[Fer5tAdm1n]

Ok this will work on my cable system...
My cable modem has its own ip...and default gateway...it runs dhcp
all i had to do was...put the 2nd pc on it own private ip...set the default
gateway to the modem gateway and set the dns to the proper ip's...and
whalaw....sharing the modem :>)
If you wanna have fun and learn networking...setup win2000 advance
server...and use it as the default gateway

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For sincere personal advice, page your sysop at 3 AM.

[Quadent]

basically to share a ip with ics you need 2 network interfaces
1 for your outside link wich used to be your dialup
and 1 for your internal network

you used to be off fine since you where taking your dialup ip and sharing it
over the 2'nd interface to your internal network

now that the nic is your first interface you need a second one for the
internal network

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-Quadent
icq:78471950
the former r3l0ad

[Terry Foley]

the easiest way to do this is to hook your cable modem to your main computer
and have 2 nics in it, just run a link to the hub and hook your other
machines into it. I have it done with a simple 3com 5 port, and it works
great with winME

[Mike]

Your cable modem provides you with one IP address. Normally, that address
is assigned to the first PC connected to the modem. Each additional device
needs it's own IP address, an IP address cannot be shared. A hub is a
device that just takes one network signal and passes it through to every
other device connected to it. The computer decides what information is
intended for it by the IP address. So, you need a router or switch to allow
your internal network (LAN) to share the single IP address from your ISP
(WAN). There are several cable routers on the market that do this task.
The cable router connects to your cable modem, and receives your cable ISP's
provided IP address. The router then acts as a gateway to the Internet for
all other networked computers in the house. The router also acts as a DHCP
server, which hands out the required IP addresses to your internal LAN
computers.

Another approach was mentioned, and that's to use one computer as a
gateway/router for the cable modem. One drawback, the computer must be left
on all the time, and you better have a very good firewall program
(ZoneAlarm, freeware). That requires two NICs, one for the cable modem, and
one for the internal LAN in your building. This computer must either be set
up as a DHCP server to hand out IP address to your internal LAN, or you can
configure static IP addresses on your internal LAN.

Best of luck.

Mike

[Ript]

iiin...@yahoo.com (][nfern0) wrote in <y5fT5.6993$vA4.109779@news6-
win.server.ntlworld.com>:

>Theres no thinking about it u need a secound NIC and then use a something
>like avirt SOHO or winproxy to share the bandwidth
>
>
>

ICS is built in, its free