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by guyinkalamazoo

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This is the question that I have. Two days ago I got my cable modem and have two accounts set up through the service. I currently have five computers (1 W2K server, 3 W2K workstation and 1 Win98) running on a workgroup. Two of the computers now are obtaining their IP addresses from the cable company making the other PCs unable to participate in the network.

Is there an easy and viable solution to correcting this problem? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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by topbudgetcomputers

You dont say which computers are on the cable modem. If you have the server, then you can use DHCP. In fact you can use DHCP on any remaining three computers. The only condition is that you make sure that your other three computers dont use the IP addresses assigned by the cable company to your other two computers. Just disable these addresses in your other three computers

by guyinkalamazoo

The server actually isn't part of the workgroup, but it is on the hub. I'm just using it to learn about W2K Server pretty much. But if I do use that where the other two computers can obtain TCP/IP addresses, what about the two that get the addresses from the ISP? They won't be included with the other three, right?

by brian young

The best option I can recommend is to install new network cards in the two computers that are now connected to the cable modem network. Place those NIC's on a hub that connects to the other systems using a private IP range. This will allow you to see both the internet out NIC 1 and the private LAN on NIC 2 of each system.

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