On 2 Jan 01, at 13:00, Eric Maquiling wrote:

> What I would like to do is either use a wireless or phone network
> that will attach to the 5 port hub.

  It depends.

  Some of the wireless network solutions include a "base station"
unit which will plug into your hub; it will either allow them to use
additional 192.168 addresses, or its manual will tell you how to make
it work.

  The phone networks I've used basically create a separate network
segment running over the phone wires.  So to connect that to your
Ethernet network, you'll need either a bridge (no, I don't know where
you can find one that connects to a phone network...), or a router.
  In my case, I have a phone link card and an ethernet card in a PC
running NT, and I've checked the "IP forwarding" box which makes it
work as a router.  You could use a Linux box for this job.
  Note that this means using a second range of addresses on the phone
network -- if you use 192.168.1.x for the Ethernet, you could use
192.168.2.x for the phone net.  Your Linux box running NAT is going
to need to be told that this router PC's ethernet address is the
gateway to the phone net range, but that's it.  [Your other PCs
already are configured to use the Linux box as their default gateway,
so as long as it knows the route, PCs on the Ethernet will be able to
talk to the phone net and vice versa.]

David G

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