Need help configuring XP Tcp/IP connectivity.

Hi DG, I am not the worlds greatest networking guru, but I
beleive you would have to replace the hub or add in a
broadband/ADSL router/switch/hub. I have used this very
succesfully to share my Internet connection and run a
games server that is available to the Lan and the
Internet. The only problem you might come across is the
fact that you will be adding a NAT device and leads to
some problems with software ( i.e. VPN clients need to
enable options to allow the encrypted packets to reach
their destination ). With regard to the Router, have a
quick search at your prefered hardware vendor. The model I
purchased has four 10/100 ports and a print server and
works well. You may well find a single port option that
you could connect to your existing hub.

Hope that is of some help and if I am slightly off in my
understanding anyone, please piont out the errors of my
ways.

Ashley.
-----Original Message-----
Hi,

I have a Windows 2000 SP3 server set up as an Active
Directory domain
controller, and I am looking to connect it via a hub to
an XP Pro
client machine, so the client can join the domain.

The XP Pro machine currently has a connection into the
hub and another
port on the hub is connected to a cable modem, which
obviously goes
off to my ISP for my internet connectivity. I want to
retain this
setup ie end result is a domain logon onto the XP Pro
machine, then
full internet connectivity from the client (not bothered
about the
server). My issue is this:

1. The ISP insists the client has a dhcp assigned ip
address.
2. For example, my server has a static ip of 175.10.1.1

Therefore, what is the best way to get my XP Pro machine
to talk to
both the internet and the A.D. server?
.

Would this work - put a 2nd network card in the XP client then connect
it via crossover to the 2000 server. Then configure the 2000 server
and the 2nd card in the XP client to use static ip's ie 175.10.1.1 and
175.10.1.2 ?


"Ashley Dawkins" wrote in message ...
Hi DG, I am not the worlds greatest networking guru, but I
beleive you would have to replace the hub or add in a
broadband/ADSL router/switch/hub. I have used this very
succesfully to share my Internet connection and run a
games server that is available to the Lan and the
Internet. The only problem you might come across is the
fact that you will be adding a NAT device and leads to
some problems with software ( i.e. VPN clients need to
enable options to allow the encrypted packets to reach
their destination ). With regard to the Router, have a
quick search at your prefered hardware vendor. The model I
purchased has four 10/100 ports and a print server and
works well. You may well find a single port option that
you could connect to your existing hub.

Hope that is of some help and if I am slightly off in my
understanding anyone, please piont out the errors of my
ways.

Ashley.
-----Original Message-----
Hi,

I have a Windows 2000 SP3 server set up as an Active
Directory domain
controller, and I am looking to connect it via a hub to
an XP Pro
client machine, so the client can join the domain.

The XP Pro machine currently has a connection into the
hub and another
port on the hub is connected to a cable modem, which
obviously goes
off to my ISP for my internet connectivity. I want to
retain this
setup ie end result is a domain logon onto the XP Pro
machine, then
full internet connectivity from the client (not bothered
about the
server). My issue is this:

1. The ISP insists the client has a dhcp assigned ip
address.
2. For example, my server has a static ip of 175.10.1.1

Therefore, what is the best way to get my XP Pro machine
to talk to
both the internet and the A.D. server?
.