Jerry,
I would propose that as your DSL Gateway you might want to go with a
Smoothwall
instead of one of the Linksys boxes....
http://www.smoothwall.org
It's free, it's Opensource, it's Linux, and it works fantastic. It might
even
make it a tiny bit easier on the networking side.... you can tell the
Smoothie
to do DHCP for you, and then simply allow Windows and Linux to get their
information
from the Gateway.
Bill Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Human [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 9:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Networked DSL
"Rodolfo J. Paiz" wrote:
> At 4/16/01 03:47 PM -0400, you wrote:
> > > But use a switch instead of a hub. You'll get better throughput with
a
> switch.
> >
> >Bummer, all I have right now is a hub and the nic's for all my boxes.
Could
> this be setup so a switch could be added later when the budget permits?
>
> Yes. Hubs and switches (at least on the low end) are interchangeable.
>
> Hubs take whatever they get on one port and rebroadcast it to every other
port;
> so an 8-port hub shares a total of 10Mbps (or 100Mbps) between all 8
computers.
> No privacy, and maximum theoretical bandwidth per computer if they were
all
> active is 1/8 of segment bandwidth.
Great, I really appreciate your explanation of hubs and switches. It was the
first
actual explanation I have read and it was most helpful. Thank you very much.
I've
been reading all the HOWTO's and readme's I could find for several weeks.
What I am trying to do is setup a basic network with two boxes as the
network and
a third box as a gateway to share DSL with all the boxes on the network. So
far,
the network between the two boxes isn't working and I haven't even tried to
setup
the gateway box, yet. Since you are familiar with Linksys products, perhaps
you
could answer a question for me.
Both boxes have Windows95 and RedHat (RH) on their hard drives. I assumed
that if
I used the same addresses for Windows and RH that the network would connect
automatically between win-win boxes and RH-RH boxes. If I installed Samba, I
should get RH-win or win-RH also. The hardware config is: box1--hub--box2.
The
hub is a Linksys EFAH08W 10/100 hub. I have setup the network in each box on
each
OS to use TCP/IP. Each setup seems to be working properly and can 'see' the
network shared components of itself. However, if in Windows, box1 cannot see
box2
and box2 cannot see box1. If in RH, the same thing occurs and I cannot even
ping
the other box. Upon original setup with both boxes in RH everything worked
and I
could ping both ways. After rebooting, the network hasn't worked again. Is
it
possible the hub has quit working? The power lite is on, the activity lites
and
the 100 lites seem to work properly. At bootup both lites for each machine
are on.
Once the OS is up and ready for input, both lites are off for each box. I
have the
software set for 100 bps, both nics load without error and everything seems
ok but
no network. :-( Got any ideas?
Thanks.
Jerry
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