Routing Problems

[JayMan8081]

Okay, I'm having another routing problem. I have four machones that I want to connect together. I want it such that PC0 is on one network, while PC2, PC3, PC4 are on a seperate network with PC2 acting as the router. How do I go about doing this? I was able to do this with three PCs but adding the fourth one in has really got me confused. PC2 and PC3 both have two NICs while the other two systems only have one NIC each. Any help would be appreciated.

[homey]

Here is one way to try it. Using a floppy router like Freesco ( short for free cisco ) http://www.freesco.org . It can run from a floppy or you could load it onto a fat partition. The nice thing about the floppy router concept is that you don’t mess up any settings on your computer.

If you have seen router boxes, they have different interfaces to connect to different networks. With that in mind, I would put three nics into the router computer ( PC2 ) and only one nic in the other computers. It is advisable to write down the MAC addresses for those nics before you go into router setup.

Example setup on PC2...
Nic 1 connects to the Internet and gets it’s IP address from your ISP using DHCP.
Nic 2 connects to the hub or crossover cable, which is connected to PC0 has a static IP address of 192.168.100.100
Nic 3 connects to the hub, which is connected to PC3 and PC4 and has a static IP address of 10.0.0.1


Another idea to consider is Firestarter.
http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/