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Rodger & Tedi MacKendrick

Bob tried to help me with this a few days ago but I never got much to go on.
I've also been over most of the stuff on Practically networked.com but I
didn't understand what much of what I was reading especially when I got to
internet connection sharing.

Here's the network layout.

The Host computer is a windows 98se machine connected to a network hub which
is connected to the internet via a Westell 2100 dual connect NAT router.
This computer connects to the internet but can't see other computers on the
home network

The Client computer is a Windows XP home edition machine connected to the
hub. It can't browse the web, nor can it see other computers on the network.

Steps I've taken so far.

First following a diagram Praticallynetworked.com had on their site I
introduced a second network card into the host computer. Amazing enough the
home network popped right up. Both computer can talk to each other and share
files. The home network is working. Now for the internet. The Host computer
(Windows 98se) can browse the web, but still the Client (windows xp) can't.
If I turn on internet connection sharing (ICS) on the Host computer, the
home network quite working. So I have that uninstalled. I've tried running
netsetup from the windows xp machine on the windows 98 machine, but it would
never give me the option of "This computer connects directly to the
internet. The other computers on my network connect to the Internet through
this computer". I'm not sure why it won't.

My problem. How do I get the Client (Windows XP) to connect to the internet?
Please don't get to technical I'm really new at networking.

thanks
Rodger
 
Rodger said:
Bob tried to help me with this a few days ago but I never got much to go on.
I've also been over most of the stuff on Practically networked.com but I
didn't understand what much of what I was reading especially when I got to
internet connection sharing.

Here's the network layout.

The Host computer is a windows 98se machine connected to a network hub which
is connected to the internet via a Westell 2100 dual connect NAT router.
This computer connects to the internet but can't see other computers on the
home network

The Client computer is a Windows XP home edition machine connected to the
hub. It can't browse the web, nor can it see other computers on the network.

Steps I've taken so far.

First following a diagram Praticallynetworked.com had on their site I
introduced a second network card into the host computer. Amazing enough the
home network popped right up. Both computer can talk to each other and share
files. The home network is working. Now for the internet. The Host computer
(Windows 98se) can browse the web, but still the Client (windows xp) can't.
If I turn on internet connection sharing (ICS) on the Host computer, the
home network quite working. So I have that uninstalled. I've tried running
netsetup from the windows xp machine on the windows 98 machine, but it would
never give me the option of "This computer connects directly to the
internet. The other computers on my network connect to the Internet through
this computer". I'm not sure why it won't.

My problem. How do I get the Client (Windows XP) to connect to the internet?
Please don't get to technical I'm really new at networking.

thanks
Rodger
Click to expand...

Here's how I would set up your network, given the stuff you have:

DSL-line
|
Router
|
W9x---Hub---XP

Use the uplink (WAN) port on the Hub to connect to the Router, and
use downlink (LAN) ports on the Hub to connect to each of the PCs.

Enable DHCP serving on the router, and set each PC to be a DHCP client.
With hardware routing, disable ICS: the two PCs will not be peers, with
no master-slave (host-client) relationship between them. And, each
PC only needs a single NIC, to connect to the Hub.
 
Bob
My ISP doesn't assign me multiple IP addresses. By connecting each
computer to the hub and the modem/router to the uplink port thus allowing
each computer to individually connect to the internet I would have to be
assigned multiple IP addresses. And I would have to pay for that second
connection. I followed Practicallynetworked.com's diagram
(http://practicallynetworked.com/sharing/lansetup.htm) to setup the current
configuration. My problem now is to get the Win 98se (host) to share that
internet connection with the Windows XP (client). Do you know how to make
that happen?

Thanks
Rodger
 
Rodger said:
Bob
My ISP doesn't assign me multiple IP addresses. By connecting each
computer to the hub and the modem/router to the uplink port thus allowing
each computer to individually connect to the internet I would have to be
assigned multiple IP addresses. And I would have to pay for that second
connection. I followed Practicallynetworked.com's diagram
(http://practicallynetworked.com/sharing/lansetup.htm) to setup the current
configuration. My problem now is to get the Win 98se (host) to share that
internet connection with the Windows XP (client). Do you know how to make
that happen?

Thanks
Rodger

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Here's how I would set up your network, given the stuff you have:

DSL-line
|
Router
|
W9x---Hub---XP

Use the uplink (WAN) port on the Hub to connect to the Router, and
use downlink (LAN) ports on the Hub to connect to each of the PCs.

Enable DHCP serving on the router, and set each PC to be a DHCP client.
With hardware routing, disable ICS: the two PCs will not be peers, with
no master-slave (host-client) relationship between them. And, each
PC only needs a single NIC, to connect to the Hub.
Click to expand...

You don't need multiple IPAs from your ISP because the router acts as
a DHCP server to supply IPAs to the PCs on its WAN side, and the router
uses DHCP as a client to request a *single* IPA from your ISP. The
router then uses NAT to map traffic from the multiple IPAs of your
PCs onto the single "channel" (that single IPA) through your ISP and to
the net.
Click to expand...
 
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