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To: TraderAlan who wrote (13400)	6/19/2002 1:27:23 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 14778

I still don't see why you can't use a router. Unless, of course, you are checked in and are not leaving. :) That is, you can use a router on your next visit. The hotel system will only see your router's MAC address. It doesn't know that there is a network behind the router. As far as using Wingate with a single NIC card - why not get a small switch or hub? I assume that you are using notebooks? I can imagine all SORTS of trouble using multiple NICs on a notebook, mainly because the manufacturers probably never suspected that anybody would do that. Ah... OK, now I see the context - I went back far enough in the thread to see what was going on. Since he is (I presume) not yet checked into the hotel (he is relocating, and will be in a hotel for two weeks in the interim) any of this should work. A router will hide his network behind a single MAC address. Wingate will hide his network behind a single MAC address. He has a 5-port switch, so he has 2 free ports. If he uses Wingate, he can assign two addresses to the gateway machine. The hotel ISP would plug into the switch, not into the gateway (Wingate) machine. Because of IP subnetting, the hotel system would not be aware of the other two computers.