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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (9174)	11/1/1999 9:08:00 AM
From: John Mireley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

I am helping a friend bring up his PC, Win 98, @Home ISP in East Lansing, MI after a disk crash. The cable modem is a Bay Networks 10 Base T. I've figured out from the invoice the IP address of the system, the gateway and dns. What's the subnet mask supposed to be. I've got it running with 255.255.255.0 and it seems to work.

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (9174)	11/2/1999 7:16:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Respond to of 14778

Dave the following post from the comp.dcom.modems.cable news group does a good job of summarizing the various ways there are for sharing a cable modem. Many use ICS, Internet Connection Sharing, that come with Windows 98 SE, Second Edition. "You can buy another IP address for about $6 a month or use two NICs in one computer, connect the cable modem directly to one of the NICs in that computer, connect that computer to the hub, and use software to share this IP address, such as Win98's ICS or WinGate. With the first method, either computer can access the internet without the other one being on. With the second method, the computer with the two NICs has to be on for the other computer to access the Internet. A third method is to get a dedicated firewall/router such as SonicWall, and connect the cable modem to it and it to your LAN."