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From: fzshenau@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Gregory Shenaut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Networking help
Date: 11 Jun 1996 22:25:39 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Lance Cavener (cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca) wrote:
:
: Im trying to connect 3 computers to my computer here that has the
: connection to the internet hooked to it. Does this mean I have to have
: 4 ethernet cards in that computer? One to the router to the internet,
: and the other 3 for each of the computers? Or could I use 10baseT and
: a hub with only one card in each PC? Where could I find some detailed
: instructions as to configuring a tcpip network with BSDI?
If the three other computers are all in the same room or fairly nearby,
you might consider 10base2/thinnet cabling. You would need a second
card in the machine connected to the Internet, and one card in each of
the other machines. I use el cheapo NE2000 clones with good success,
but apparently these can produce errors under load, so maybe another
type of card, such as the ubiquitous 3c905b, would be preferable.
I can't see buying a hub unless you need to for distance or wiring
reasons.
For more info, look at Chapter 15 ("Network Hardware") in Nemeth
et al. (1995)'s UNIX System Administration (2nd Ed). (IMHO, you
need to get this book anyway for chapters 1-14 and 16-32.)
--
Greg Shenaut -- gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu