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 [log in to unmask] ----- 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 > > The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering > Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along > with the OpenOffice CD... at a great price!!! > http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml > The NOSPIN Group is now accepting donations to help defer the costs of providing PCBUILD and our website. Visit http://freepctech.com to donate using PAYPAL