On Monday 30 May 2005 12:08, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > By mistake I bought an Ethernet 8 port Ethernet switch on an on-line > auction, I was looking for a router and got very confused with > terminology. Anyway - is it possible to network two PCs using this > switch, to share dial up modem and printer. I thought the answer was > yes, and tried MCC > Network sharing, but obviously need to do something > more, maybe in second box which is mepis. > Thanks > The switch is fine for networking, but it doesn't do the same job as a router for network connections. To set it up for a network, simply connect the switch to your external connection, modem, I presume, and each computer to a port on the switch. Then run the wizard in MCC to sort out addressing. It's much the same as setting up a network in windows.
There is also an Internet Connection Sharing wizard, which should sort out that problem for you. I haven't used that, though, so I can't help much. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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