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To: aldrums who wrote (11021)	6/21/2000 4:34:00 PM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Thanks for sharing your solution. I didn't have a clue :)

To: aldrums who wrote (11021)	6/21/2000 4:58:00 PM
From: Michael G. Potter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I must have missed your question. timhiggins.com has quite a few articles on this and I use the product found at nat32.com . I have a cable modem, but the theory is the same. By using your hub instead of a NAT program or a hardware router, you have exposed both your PCs to the internet. If you're file sharing or printer sharing, then everyone on the internet can wander in. grc.com is a good site to test out just how good your security it. I would recommend getting an inexpensive hardware router and using that as your firewall. About a year ago, I would have said to put two NICs in one machine - one to the internet and one to the internal LAN, but hardware routers are getting inexpensive. Of course, a real computer technicion would use an old 486 and Linux to build a router, but that's not me. Michael

To: aldrums who wrote (11021)	6/21/2000 5:02:00 PM
From: Alex Molnar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Aldrums, Thanks for posting your solution on networking two computers. I was waiting to see if someone would respond, as I intend to do just what you did. Can you post the netgear hub you used? Again thanks for sharing your solution. Alex