Thanks
Mark,
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 his
account….
Tim.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Mark
Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 June 2002 19:04
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: 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@xxxxxxxSubject: [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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