3 comps 4 Network card

LAST EDITED ON May-23-02 AT 12:22 PM (EST)

i have 3 comps.....middle one has 2 network cards and it is connected by each one to another computer.It looks like this:

comp1 ------------- comp2 --------------- comp3
192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.4
255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0
Comp2 can see both comps.....but comp1 and comp3 cant ping or see each other.......All 3 comps have win98se installed.......
It seems that comp2 does not route net traffic from 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.3 ??????
So Please help?????
Do i need wingate or some routing software?
Server based games like UT work well as long as the comp2 is the server
Thanx in advance!!!!

1. RE: 3 comps 4 Network card
lbyard May-23-02 11:52 AM
In response to message 0

How are they networked and what operating systems are they running? Also, it will be difficult to answer this post without more info on the network configurations. Larry

2. RE: 3 comps 4 Network card
gpekic May-23-02 12:04 PM
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i have 3 comps.....middle one has 2 network cards and it is
connected by each one to other computer like this:

comp1 ---------------------------comp2------------------ comp3
IP: 192.168.0.1 IP1: 192.168.0.2 IP2: 192.168.0.3 IP: 192.168.0.4
TheY are conneted with UTP crossover cables...
Comp2 can see both comps.....but comp1 and comp3 cant ping
or see each other.......All 3 comps are running WINDOWS 98SE
It seems that comp2 does not route net traffic from
192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.3 ??????
So Please help?????
Do i need wingate or some routing software?
Server based games like UT work well as long as the comp2 is
the server
Thanx in advance!!!!

3. RE: 3 comps 4 Network card
lbyard May-23-02 12:20 PM
In response to message 2

What kind of Internet connection do you have? Larry

4. RE: 3 comps 4 Network card
gpekic May-23-02 12:24 PM
In response to message 3

None......i simply what to connect 3 comps toghether without using a hub.......

5. RE: 3 comps 4 Network card
Flavah May-23-02 06:24 PM
In response to message 4

I recommend a hub/switch.
I'm not sure if there is specific software to enable you to do it but likely it would cost more than a hub. Or if you're really anti-hub put 2 NICs in each machine haha.
Or: Get some 10Base2 cards with BNC connectors...
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

9. RE: 3 comps 4 Network card
lbyard May-24-02 11:27 AM
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>Or: Get some 10Base2 cards with BNC connectors...
Do yourself a favor and forget 10BASE2 (thinwire coax Ethernets). That recommendation comes from someone who has built and supported many of them and a theoretical believer in the virtue of coax as a superior transmission medium as compared to twisted-pair transmission lines. In the real world, however, if you don't know how to build a coax network and don’t know exactly what to build it with, it is going to have many more problems than twisted-pair network, and you won't save any noticeable money using coax over twisted pair. A 100BASE-TX network is in fact more reliable and faster than 10BASE2 network. See http://duxcw.com/faq/network/thinwire.htm for more on this subject. Larry

6. RE: 3 comps 4 Network card
Twinhead May-24-02 03:30 AM
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If you dont want to use a HUB or SWITCH, conect them in Triangle.
or as to say: in each copmuter two nics and connect each one to the two opposite ones.
Be aware of MUCH traffic, beceause you are theoreticaly creating a closed loop with it!!
Victor.

8. RE: 3 comps 4 Network card
lbyard May-24-02 11:15 AM
In response to message 6

I might add that I have tried the two network card thing and tried to get a Windows bridge working between them, and got the same results: two networks that could not “talk” to each other and one PC that could talk to each separately. That was done with a thinwire Ethernet at our second location. (At our first location we had a much larger staff, two businesses, and a building with two floors wired with thinwire Ethernet and a Cabletron multiport repeater--about $1,500 back then). Although the routing table thing is supposed to be possible, I gave-up and bought a hub and 10BASE-T network adapters. The hub was then replaced with a switch and the adapters were upgraded to 100BASE-TX. It, in turn, was replaced by a combination broadband router/Ethernet switch. What is to be learned from this evolutionary process? If you going to build a small LAN and have or are planning a shared cable of DSL Internet connection, start with a router/switch (http://duxcw.com/faq/ics/diffrout.htm). Larry