[plug] newbie, adsl, and linux internet sharing queries

[Ari Finander]

>
>I believe so but I would stay away from adding extra nodes to you coax and
>just try and make everything utp. It will save you lots of headache in the
>long run and cost wise it is not much more.
>

This was my original plan: buy hub, buy cable, everything happy happy :-)

However, this raises a question: can utp and coax connect to the same network 
card if it's capable and at the same time??  I thought if I were to use 
twisted pair I'd have to either buy a hub or install 2 cards on some 
machines...

>Okay connecting one machines NIC to another machines NIC with no hub in
>between is easy./ You just need to use a special cable called a crossover
>that "crosses over" (hence the name) certain transmit and receive pins. If
>you then want the desktop machine to communicate with the rest of the
>network then you will need to enable some form of routing which not all OS
>support. What OS do you run on the desktop machine ?
>

One will be running Win98SE, the Other RedHat 7.0, Win98SE, and Debian 2.2r2 
at different times of the week.

>One other alternative is to by a hub that also has a coax connector and then
>you can use it as a bridge and not have to worry about second NIC's routing
>etc. You will have to put IP_Forwarding and IP_Masquearading on the 486
>though.
>

So with that type of hub, I don't have to buy so much extra utp cable as I can 
still use my coax, and then have the laptop plug into the hub from cable in 
different rooms, right?

Ari

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