I'm looking for ftp sites to DL Futurama and Blackadder episodes. You may discreetly email if you want to.
BTW-Using Kazaa to snare this stuff is a pain. It makes XP as stable as old Mac SO 7.5.3 on an under-RAMmed Performa and gave me a bad case of Benjamin.
BTW- Anybody know how to share a cable modem (Toshiba PCX2200) between an old beige Mac G3 (OS 9.9.2 and 10.1.4) and a home-built P4 peecee (Soyo Dragon Ultra mobo, Windows 98SE and XP)? I already have a no-brand Ethernet switcher.
DGH
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They should Ethernet together perfectly fine. Modem into the WAN port of the switch and computers into the LAN ports.
Okay the modem is plugged into the uplink port and the computers are plugged into the peer ports. Right now the only way I can get the thing to work is to shut down both computers, reset the modem by briefly unplugging it, and start only one of the computers up. Even then, I sometimes have to repair the connection or reboot.
I wish there was a FastTrack client for the Mac or at least know a place to DL Futurama, Blackadder, or Red Dwarf reruns.
DGH
"doug holverson" wrote in message news:B91A97AA.D6FBD%[email]...
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Perhaps your not using the correct equipment. I am using a Linksys Ethernet Router (BEFSR41) It needs to have it's one little computer inside it to sort out the WAN connection through the modem, and a DHCP (either in the router or somewher on the network) to hand out IP's as computers come on or off the network.
I run an FTP site at jbl.myftp.org. Search the groups.google.com archive for more info ...
On Wed, 29 May 2002 15:14:54 GMT, doug holverson wrote:
I have a similar setup. Toshiba PCX1100U and a linksys switch. To share a modem, you will need more than one IP address. If you don't want to pay for a second one, then you'll need a NAT (Network Address Translator). You can go two ways, either a stand alone NAT, or one integrated with a switch.
I got a Netgear NAT box reconditioned for $49. The cable modem connects to the NAT, then the NAT connects to the switch.
The NAT will get a single IP address from your provider, then it will issue IP addresses to your machines via DHCP.
The box "translates" the addresses it issues into it's own on outgoing packets and back on incoming packets. To the ISP, it looks like one machine.
The box will even spoof the MAC (Media Access Control) address of one machine so you won't need to reset the modem to switch. Or explain the address change to your ISP.
You can get an integrated system for $89 - 99 with a switch, NAT, print server and COM port server all in a box slightly larger than a regular switch.
I have configured both types of setup and they are actually pretty easy to do. In both cases, the box has a micro web server built in that lets you configure the whole thing from a web page. They also serve as a hardware firewall. Just follow the instructions and go.
Since it all works by DHCP, it doesn't care if you have Windows, Mac, Linux etc.
--Larry