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by tsurko

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How can I connect two seperate LANs without using additional hardware? I've got two LAN cards (COAX & UTP) i want the users from the both LANs to see each other.

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by alpha-male

If you need to do it without hardware and you don't have a router or layer-3 switch, what you need is to set up a software router. You'll need to take a system that is connected to both networks and have it route the packets in between them.

Take a look here for a basic description of doing this in Win 2K:

http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/w2kprout.htm

other references:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/networking/

http://www.labmice.net/networking/default.htm

(delete any spaces in the URLs)

Good luck...hope this helps.

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