I’m trying to plan the network for the new
place, and keep going round in circles and disappearing up my own arsehole
J Things are very simple here at
the
moment, but both bandwidth requirements plus the number of connected
devices
will increase dramatically.
Currently I have an ADSL connection, with a
“server”
running Windows XP. This has a wireless LAN card installed, and using
Windows
ICS acts as a DHCP server, and internet gateway for my laptop and iPAQ,
plus
the family’s single PC (again over the wireless
network)
Now things start to get complicated. We
don’t
want to rely on the fact that a wireless network might (or might not) work
in
the new place. There is some existing “infrastructure cabling”
that
we might be able to utilise for computer networking.
I want to retain my existing system more or less
intact – ADSL plus wireless network.
The family will have at least three PCs which
will
need networking together, plus there will be an additional three machines
which
belong to a small business which is co-located with us for at least the
first
12 months. They will need their own (shared) ADSL connection – and I
should imagine some form of DHCP server.
All this is fairly simple (to my mind anyway),
until
you throw a spanner in. I will want to connect my PC to the network in
order to
use Terminal Services (Windows XP remote desktop) to carry out maintenance
etc.
Can you have two DHCP servers on the same network? Is it is simple as
dividing
the 192.168.0.X network into two separate sub-nets using the network mask
255.255.255.128? How do I set up the two network cards in my machine (one
wired, one wireless)?
HELP!
Tim.