The only problem I can forsee. Is said
sulky 14 year-old who likes to download huge files from the Internet
– I just
got a message from the desktop he uses that it only had 80 meg of free
diskspace.
I logged on to find that he had a 3 gig folder on his desktop which was
full of
stuff from Grokster – a program which I had explicitly forbidden him
from
installing. Needless to say I have now removed “Power User”
priveledges
>from
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison
[mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 June 2002 19:04
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Windows
network advice required (plus Tim decides to install some
CAT5!)
You
can't have two DHCP servers on the same "wire"... Each client
machine
will simply broadcast a "here I am- can I have an IP address,
please"
request, and listen to which ever DHCP server responds
FIRST.
I
see a
few solutions, all of which involve segregating the network into 2, and
running
different IP address ranges on each.
The
problem comes if you're using Windows Internet Connection Sharing on both.
Unless it's changed in XP, you can't specifiy the DHCP range it chooses to
hand
out :-(
Personally,
I'd keep your network wireless, and their network wired. Then have one
ADSL-Sharing box per media type :-)
In
order
to administer their machines, you'd simply take out the wireless card, and
plug
YOUR laptop into the CAT5 :-) :-)
If
both
networks are wired, then, again, plug into a different wall point (this is
why
you install them in blocks of 4 :-), and refresh your DHCP-given
address.)
Alternatively,
I'd "suck it and see" performance-wise, whether both networks can
share the same ADSL line. I think it likely that they WILL be able
to....
-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Morris
[mailto:timothy.morris@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 June 2002 15:09
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Windows
network
advice required (plus Tim decides to
install
some CAT5!)
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.
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