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Miscellaneous => Programming & Networking => Topic started by: Dudley on 15 October 2004, 00:19

Title: 2 Nics in Win98
Post by: Dudley on 15 October 2004, 00:19

I have 2 networks in one building.
I want one of the clients on network 1 to see the other network.  I understand i need to put two NICS in one client, but how do i configure the settings in win98 to also see network 2 so the user can see both networks.  Also, will the user have to log into both networks?

Title: 2 Nics in Win98
Post by: M51DPS on 15 October 2004, 01:54

You know, if you install Linux (http://www.linuxiso.org/) on one of your machines and use it to set up a bridge between the networks, you won't need to bother with these kind of things. Here (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Bridge+Firewall.html) are (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/BRIDGE-STP-HOWTO.html#WHAT-IS-A-BRIDGE) guides (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Bridge.html), and come back here if you run into trouble.

Title: 2 Nics in Win98
Post by: Refalm on 5 January 2005, 15:16

Bridging in Linux is pretty easy. The only difficult thing is patching the kernel, which isn't really that hard  (http://smile.gif)

Here's the guide I used:
http://www.shorewall.net/bridge.html (http://www.shorewall.net/bridge.html)

(it has one fault in the guide... you need to move the brctl from /usr/local/sbin to /usr/local/bin for it to work with the rc.bridge script, and you need to change the script itself)