Internet Sharing with regular Hub

This may depend on your provider. My local provider installs a Cisco 675 and will allow up to 4 computers to share the connection. In this case, you can plug the DSL router into the hub and that will work for 4 computers. If you have a true DSL modem, you will probably not be able to do this as you will only have one IP address. The Cable/DSL routers use NAT (Network address translation) to sort the incoming data to the correct PC, a hub has no such intelligence. The easiest thing would beto put another NIC in the server pc, though I would consider using a linksys or Netgear router as it will provide an extra layer of security by separating your local network from the outside.

The above answer is essentially correct. I've also installed a second nic in my server machine but to head your next question off at the pass...

You do you make it work?

If you're running WindowsXP on your server then you may be able to ignorewhat I say below... I cant as its a crappy old 24Mb P133 running Win98se and internet sharing and nothing else!

Lots of people have all sorts of trouble with Win98 having multiple nics, ICS and DSL.

Furthermore I couldn't make it work with Win2K Pro or Win2K Server. Blue screens everywhere...

So I ended up using a thing called RASPPPOE - you can find it on the net.

It makes the DSL connection look like a superfast dial-up connection which correctly uses ICS.

I'm very happy with that setup. It seems very efficient.

Hope that helps
Cheers,
Tim.

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