On 18 Mar 00, at 23:06, Wayne Ramlogan wrote:
> originally I was trying to network a PC and a
> powerbook to share Internet access; gave up for now. Instead I have
> plugged the modem into a hub along with the PC and the powerbook.
> The powerbook is able to establish a connection' with no problems
> but the PC's connection times out. I'm using a DSL connection.
> Could someone help??? thnx
Unless I'm misunderstanding part of this, you're trying to use the
same IP address for both PC and PowerBook, right? In that case, the
modem is essentially going to send all traffic to the device that
first/fastest/most recently answered the question "Who owns this
address?"; it sounds like the PowerBook almost always wins this race.
David G
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