Hello Dave ;

Not sure if this helps....But I have a Belkin 4 Port Router hooked up to my
home network....2 windows XP Pro Machines and one Windows 95 Machine
connected. I also have a Cable Modem. I control user access to my machines
via user accounts on the xp machines, if you setup the 4th machine with a
seperate user name and password, dont add that to the other 3 you should be
ok. I setup IPX/SPX as my comm protocol for my network and unchecked tcp/ip,
this gives you some protection from internet issues. I do have a firewall on
each machine also....

Thanks ;

Rich McAllister
ComputerTroubleshooters - Stroudsburg
Local Service - Global Strength
570-620-2808
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Farrington" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 7:56 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Router question


> I have a Linksys router/switch connected to a cable internet connection.
> I have three XP Home edition computers connected to three of four ports
> of the router. All three computers are sharing files as well as the
> internet connection. Everything works fine.
>
> The fourth port of the router I would like to use it to connect another
> computer using XP Home edition. The difference here would be I don't
> this fourth computer to have access to my other three computers in
> anyway. I don't know the terms for this process or the set-up but I will
> say I want to let this fourth computer only have access to the internet
> and nothing else to do with the other three. First is isolating the
> fourth computer from my other three computer possible with my Linksys
> router (model BEFW11S4)? If so is it called tunneling or strapping this
> fourth computer? I am ok at finding information on the internet if I
> know some key words. I don't know the MAC address for the fourth
> computer's NIC but I can get it. If this process is simple please
> explain it to me.
>
> Thank you.
>
> David
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