On 28 Oct 99, at 19:18, Wayne Harris wrote:

>   I do have another question now. I have Broadband now and am
> going to network all these computers together. I have been to
> www.timhiggins.com and the site states that I should put 2 NIC
> cards in the computer that is connected directly to Broadband, to
> prevent my network from being part of the larger (i.e. outside of
> my house) network. I had never heard this before. Has anybody else?

  If you put the Brodband directly on a hub of your network, all of
your machines will be visible to the outside world -- and will need
valid global addresses, which you probably don't have.
  Two NICs will allow this machine to act as a gateway between the
global Internet and your local net; with suitable software
(implementing either "proxy" or "network address translation" (NAT),
only this gateway machine needs a valid global address, and the rest
can use local-only addresses.

David G

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