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blue jammer · 16-01-2004, 10:26

Thanks for the suggestions.

I read somewhere you are only allowed to connect 3 PC's to the net with NTL, so thats why I wanted to block this 4th PC that would be connected to the router as a file server.

I like the sound of the firewall idea, that'd be easy to do and would block it nicely, will try that later.

Here's another quick question if I may..

I have an old network hub (10 port) that I could plug in to my 4 port router, if I did this and ran a file server and a laptop through this, would this be ok, as neither would be used for net access, I want to set up a linux install of freebsd on the laptop and it'd be handy to network the lot, so I can still have access to the network of local PC's.

If doing so, will all the PC's currently assinged local IP addresses, be able to access the 2 PC's plugged into the old hub, in turn plugged into the router and vice versa?

OR, would I need to setup some kind of sub network?

Please explain as if you were explaining it to a 4 year old, as I'm not crash hot with networking!

16-01-2004, 10:26	#6
blue jammer Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 31	Re: file server/networking question Thanks for the suggestions. I read somewhere you are only allowed to connect 3 PC's to the net with NTL, so thats why I wanted to block this 4th PC that would be connected to the router as a file server. I like the sound of the firewall idea, that'd be easy to do and would block it nicely, will try that later. Here's another quick question if I may.. I have an old network hub (10 port) that I could plug in to my 4 port router, if I did this and ran a file server and a laptop through this, would this be ok, as neither would be used for net access, I want to set up a linux install of freebsd on the laptop and it'd be handy to network the lot, so I can still have access to the network of local PC's. If doing so, will all the PC's currently assinged local IP addresses, be able to access the 2 PC's plugged into the old hub, in turn plugged into the router and vice versa? OR, would I need to setup some kind of sub network? Please explain as if you were explaining it to a 4 year old, as I'm not crash hot with networking!