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Two nics query
I have 8 pc's ethernet'd in house via Cat5 and a hub. As I live in rural
area and there's only dialup available, one of the pcs runs a proxy server that most of the others use to connect to the internet. That way, wife, daughters and myself can all surf at same time, albeit slowly. Six of the pcs run 98SE (one is the proxy server), another desktop runs XP-PRO and a laptop runs XP Home. We are about to have a 'Satellite internet connection' (NS, Canada) installed, e.g. dish and other hardware. It is my understanding that this requires a network card for it's connection to the pc. Seems to me the best approach I could take would be to install a second nic in the desktop XP-Pro unit for that connection. Reasoning being XP Pro allows one to bridge networks which sounds like that should allow the other pcs to also use the Sat connection via Proxy or Windows/ ICS? So the questions ... Presumably, getting 2 nics installed and working properly under XP-Pro in a 2.8G/1G ram pc isn't a problem? Is setting up the "bridging" straight forward? Any links one might care to point me at appreciated. Thanks for your time. |
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