Multiple ethernet situation

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colmannady

Howdy all!

I would like to create the following situation, please advise if
possible and if so, how to configure. I actually don't have time right
now to set this up, but am wondering if it is even possible.

I would like to have one computer connected to the internet. It is a
typical configuration: DHCP ethernet -> router -> cable/dsl modem ->
ISP.

I would like a second computer to act like an ISP. It would sit in
FRONT of it's own wireless router, allowing other computers to connect
to it much in the same way the first machine connects to the internet.

I would now like to add a wireless ethernet adapter to the first
computer. The user of the first computer should be able to easily
configure the new wireless adapter to recognize and connect to the
second computer.

The result would be a single client computer connected to two
"internets", the first being the regular internet, the second being the
supplementary internet provided by the second computer, set up to route
requests and serve web content from within itself.

I am essentially trying to create a secondary source of web content
that can be accessed by many other computers without them being
explicity networked together (meaning enabling file/printer sharing or
client for ms networks).

Can this work?
 
Didn't follow the part about the "many other computers." But with respect
to the first computer, the answer is Yes. You will need to manually
configure TCP/IP on the wireless adapter in the first computer with no
default gateway and create a static route to whatever subnet the second
computer is using. If the second computer is hosting web sites, you may
have to create hosts file entries for them. You could avoid the static
route if you connected the second computer to the wireless router's LAN port
instead of the Internet/WAN port.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
Thank you for your response. I will probably have time to experiment
with this later this Spring. Cheers!
 
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