Multihomed Wireless NIC???

[dnoack]

Hi,

I am curious if this is possible. I have a small network at home with some computers in one room and some in another room. However, my cable modem connection is only in one way and there is no way to get cable to the next room without destroing things.

I do have a LInksys 802.11b WAP, which I used with a wireless nic card in one of the computers in the non-wired room. Is it possible to multihome the computer the wireless nic card is in by adding a wired Ethernet card, running tge cable out of that to a hub and connect other computer to that network.

The wireless nic card is configured and works in getting a signal from the WAP. Is it possible to configure the second, wired Ethernet card, to somehow access, maybe using a defauly gateway, to the wireless card. The wireless card would act like a router to the second, wired card.

After trying this a few times, I am unable to get it to work. Maybe it can't work. But I thought I would ask.

The reason I'm trying to go this route is to avoid buying more wireless nic cards.

I am running Windows 2000.

Thanks,

David

[EricB]

So what you want is, to have ics running between two pc's. One is the host and one is the client. Furthermore, you want to have the client also running as a host for the third computer?

I doubt if this is going to work. Microsoft uses 192.168.0.1 for the pc that funtions as the host for ics. The client 1 and host pc needs to have that ip also to be recognized by the third pc as being the host.

You might want to try fixed ip's where the ip from the second pc is the defaultgateway for the third pc. Make sure you stick to the 192.168.0.x range

You might want to try the following. (but still doubt if it can work)

Host :
IP 192.168.0.1
Subnet: 255.255.255.0

Client / Host
IP 192.168.0.2
Default Gateway 192.168.0.1
Subnet: 255.255.255.0

PC 3
Ip 192.168.0.3
Default gateway 192.168.0.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0

If this won't work on the 3rd pc, you might want to try to give it default gateway 192.168.0.1

Let me know if you get it to work.