ICS sharing one NIC with 2-3 other NICS.

[RedPenguin]

Right now I have four NICs in my XP Pro machine.

I have Linksys, Accton, Compaq, and Netgear.

I have Linksys hooked up to my cable modem sharing with Accton hooked
up to a switch and to the rest of my net and everything works fine.

Now being that Linksys is already shared with Accton, can I have it
also share with the Compaq and Netgear NICs without much trouble or
ruining the already setup net?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "RedPenguin" <[email protected]>

| Right now I have four NICs in my XP Pro machine.
|
| I have Linksys, Accton, Compaq, and Netgear.
|
| I have Linksys hooked up to my cable modem sharing with Accton hooked
| up to a switch and to the rest of my net and everything works fine.
|
| Now being that Linksys is already shared with Accton, can I have it
| also share with the Compaq and Netgear NICs without much trouble or
| ruining the already setup net?

All you need is ONE NIC in each PC. Having more NICs is a complete waste of resources.

Replace the Ethernet switch with a Cable/DSL Router such as the Linksys BEFSR41 and greatly
simply your setup.

 

[RedPenguin]

No I mean the XP Pro Router with ICS has 4 NICs not each machine. I
want to hook up another switch to another NIC in the ICS host so that I
can expand my net. I don't mean I have more than one NIC in each
client.

 

[DanS]

No I mean the XP Pro Router with ICS has 4 NICs not each machine. I
want to hook up another switch to another NIC in the ICS host so that
I can expand my net. I don't mean I have more than one NIC in each
client.

Regardless, as DHL said, dump ICS and just get a Cable/DSL router.

David H. Lipman wrote:

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "RedPenguin" <[email protected]>

| No I mean the XP Pro Router with ICS has 4 NICs not each machine. I
| want to hook up another switch to another NIC in the ICS host so that I
| can expand my net. I don't mean I have more than one NIC in each
| client.

The Cable/DSL Router, such as the Linksys BEFSR41 or one with a full FireWall
Implementation, has a WAN port which connects to the Cable Modem. It has 4 10/100 Ethernet
Switched ports. Each post connects to; a PC or game Box, an Ethernet hub or an Ethernet
switch. With such a device you can share the one Internet address with up to 253 platforms.

There is no need for *any* PC to have more than one NIC.