98 network

I have a 8 pc network with an ISP that provides me with 5 IP's. All 8 pc's are running windows 98 se. I have a cable modem, an 8 port hub and a router.

I am not running Novell, Lantastic or anything else other than file and printer sharing. The most important is setting up Internet Sharing.

Can someone explain to me how i can get the best results with this.

Thanks
Dave

 

Set all eight to use DHCP. In win98 (Obtain Automatically).


Mike

 

Mike, thanks for your reply: the only question i have remaining is how to use all 5 ip's.. do i go thru the router first OR... do i take 4 of the ips and run them thru the hub and the 4th ip and run it thru the router... over to you.

(edit note - Dave, I merged the two threads. You need to keep all comments on just this one thread to avoid confusion.
Newt)

Thanks again
Dave

 

Dave - does your router have the ability to provide DHCP & NAT?

 

Dave

If you have a nat router to provide DHCP, would not matter if you had a thousand static IP's.

You only need one.

At least in you described use. If you were going to utilize incoming remote access it would be nice to have the static IP's.

Forget the others!

Mike

 

dave,

the simplest arrangement making use of all ur resources is to assign the WAN IP address to the router and configure the Router to act as the DHCP Server. That way one static IP address would suffice.(for external interface alone). internally u can use a different range of ip address. Configure all the 98 m/c to "assign ip address automatically ", so as to receive the ip address from the router. the architecture would be like this

cable modem -> Router ->HUB -> 8 PCs
(DHCP)

there r n number of ways to share internet. out of which the above configuration would be secure because u can make use of a hardware firewall (router).

U can also connect the WAN link directly to the HUB by passing the router. in that case u would be able to use only 5 systems, unless u have a NAT.

U can get another NIC on one of the machines and connect the wan link directly to it. share the network thru the other NIC and connect it to the HUB to broadcast.

And so on.......

but the first option is the best!


vinodh prabhu