- Apr 25, 2002
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Okay, I've beat myself over the head trying to figure this out and get it working. Any networking Pros out there that can either help me or tell me I'm trying something physically impossible (Short of writing my own tcp/ip OS drivers at least) would be appreciated!
I have a small nest of three (Soon to be four) machines running folding@home off in a back room. They are all running XP Pro or Home, with the main rig getting internet access via my wireless G network. Buying anymore $40 cards is out of the question, that money would be better spent turning all of those proposed $40 wifi cards into one new single fast computer and moving it beside the cable router! (I did breakdown and buy a Belkin 5-port switch off ebay for $6 shipped, but if I ever exceed 5 ports I'll need to know this trick again... and, it's simply bugging the heck out of me now!)
Anyway I have a cat5 crossover cable linking the wifi G connected comp to another, and sharing the internet through ICS. But now I've run out of ethernet ports/cards and also crossover cat5 cable. Well, both the wifi G machine and the third machine have IEEE 1394A ports, so I connected them that way.
I can get the computers to ping each other and talk to each other, even have been able to set up a little "mini" network between the two such as if I wanted to share files. But all I want to share is the internet connection off the one machine, and I just can't figure it out or find any guides to follow to share the internet connection over fireware. Any ideas, excluding buying more equipment? Or is this "as doable" as trying to fill my tiny bedroom up with half a dozen computers...
I even have a USB crossover cable, but I quickly gave up trying to even figure out how to work that one out short of using some kind of proprietary software pacakge. As far as I know none would share the internet connection anyway...
I have a small nest of three (Soon to be four) machines running folding@home off in a back room. They are all running XP Pro or Home, with the main rig getting internet access via my wireless G network. Buying anymore $40 cards is out of the question, that money would be better spent turning all of those proposed $40 wifi cards into one new single fast computer and moving it beside the cable router! (I did breakdown and buy a Belkin 5-port switch off ebay for $6 shipped, but if I ever exceed 5 ports I'll need to know this trick again... and, it's simply bugging the heck out of me now!)
Anyway I have a cat5 crossover cable linking the wifi G connected comp to another, and sharing the internet through ICS. But now I've run out of ethernet ports/cards and also crossover cat5 cable. Well, both the wifi G machine and the third machine have IEEE 1394A ports, so I connected them that way.
I can get the computers to ping each other and talk to each other, even have been able to set up a little "mini" network between the two such as if I wanted to share files. But all I want to share is the internet connection off the one machine, and I just can't figure it out or find any guides to follow to share the internet connection over fireware. Any ideas, excluding buying more equipment? Or is this "as doable" as trying to fill my tiny bedroom up with half a dozen computers...
I even have a USB crossover cable, but I quickly gave up trying to even figure out how to work that one out short of using some kind of proprietary software pacakge. As far as I know none would share the internet connection anyway...