Mirco Scara wrote:
Hi there guys, I urgently need advice on how to set up a home network between 2 computers both dual bootingWINXP and Fedora 4 both on separate internal hard disks. Both are connected via ethernet to a ZOOM adsl router and the router is obviously connected to a hub/switch from which the two separate ethernet cables go to the two separate ethernet cards on the two separate computers. Now the problem is: Both computers can get connected to the internet at one time but never together at the same time.
This problem sounds like you have a high speed modem hooked to a 4-port switch. If you have a router, it gets the one IP address from your ISP (hooked to modem) and on the other end assigns different IP addresses to each computer in a local area address band. The computers then should both be able to connect to the Internet.
If you only have a switch / hub, you only get the ISP assigned address and only one computer gets the connection. I know someone that bought two seperate IP addresses from their ISP and still had trouble when using a switch instead of a router.
Replace the hub with a router. They are fairly inexpensive. Jim
Is there any document on the net I can read so that I can shed some light onto this LAN TUNNELL?????? THANKS A LOT MIRCO
