Internet Connection Sharing question
OK...I've got Unibrain FireNet (came with my Audigy...whoo hoo :)) and I successfully networked two computers with FireWire. They are sharing files, etc...everything is fine.
What I want to do now is have one computer hooked up to the Internet and the other computer, using the FireWire network, access the internet THROUGH the first computer's LAN connection. I want to do this because I don't have two LAN jacks in my comptuer room and I don't feel like wiring up a second, and figure this would be an easy way...
I have seen the Internet Connection Sharing tab but I'm not quite sure how to use it and such, I've tried checking it on for connections on both machines but nothing seems to work.
Suggestions would be nice on how to do this-- both machines are running Win2K.
Re: as an alternative . . .
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Originally posted by Poseidon
Not exactly what you are looking for, but why don't you save yourself some headache, time and trouble and just use a gateway/router such as the Linksys BEFSR41W?
Presently you can pick one up for around $75 USD
My.02¢
I've got one of those already, just that I wanted to network two machines without the trouble of running ANOTHER network cable from one side of the house to the other...and the first cost-free option at my fingertips would be FireWire and I wanted to give that a shot.
One of these days it looks like I'm going to try putting two NICs in one of the machines, hookng up one of them to the router and the other NIC will be hooked up to the second machine with a crossover cable.
Thanks for all the help.