On 5/31/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As incredibly knowledgable as I am in linux I'm a total dolt in windoze. > For reasons that just horrify me I have to take posession of a winblose > laptop which when used at home will be NATing out through my server. Any > computers I have in house are running linux and all have static addresses > assigned. > Can some kind soul tell me what I need to do (prefereably at both ends) so > that when I plug my laptop into the hub it'll get an address? The topology > is that the server plugs into the cable modem and the server has two NICs. > The hub plugs into the other NIC.
The same sort of things you'd do with a Linux box in the same situation. :-) Use static addresses if you like. Or, set up a DHCP server running on the internal NIC. If this seems daunting, buy a 50$ linksys and make life easier. :-) -- -- Thomas _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
