If you are using the Windose ME box to connect to the cable ISP, you should not have
to worry about your workgroup name. I use Rogers@home and used to have a similar set
up that you describe. With the windows machine, I assigned it the workgroup name of
the internal network I wished to use and configured the external network card to use
DHCP.
To be able to route through the windose machine, you can use the built in Internet
Connection Sharing (which is pitiful) or a third party program such as Nevod 1000. You
can't get Nevod 1000 anymore from a web site. It was bought out by M$. It is a nice
program and works well. I can send you a copy if you wish.
The type of cabling that you use is not important.
Regards,
Wil McGilvery
Manager, Digital Media
Lynch Technologies Inc.
416-744-7191
1-888-622-3729
416-744-0406 FAX
www.lynchdigital.com
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Subject: Cable Modem Help
Hello All,
I know this is a windoze question, but the expertise of this group is why I use
Linux in the first place.
I will be setting up cable internet access in the next day or so. The ISP only
recognizes windoze. (The SxS site shows me how to get around that w/
Linux). It requires that you change your workgroup to @home, as well as the
computer name. However, I have dual nic cards of two different types. My
home net is setup using the old BNC type coaxial cables and I just put in an
RJ45 10/100 card for use with the cable modem. No challenges and SuSE 7.2
sees them both and has no issues.
My question, as I got no help from the windoze literature, is how do I set up
more than one workgroup under windoze ME? Then I want to route from the
BNC card to the RJ45 card, which will be my gateway. It will have a dynamic
IP address from the ISP provider, Comcast@home.
I know there are @home users on the lists. Have any of you done this with 2
NIC cards? It will be tough to change all the cards to RJ45 at this point.
Overview of current setup:
HOMENET - workgroup
mixed Linux/windoze boxes
Dual boot box has windoze ME with
BNC NIC ethernet card on 192.168.1.x homenet
RJ45 NIC ethernet card on as yet to determine IP address
have set it to 192.168.1.x for the time being
All other boxes only have one NIC card all set in the 192.168.1.x
range and are using BNC type connectors
I know, I need to get with the times, but this house is rented and BNC was able
to be setup using existing holes the owner drilled for his speaker wires...go figure.
Any and all help/thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
Keith B.
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