[thelist] Home Network Configuration help

[ox4dboy at comcast.net]

> Disable DHCP on the Netgear and instead of plugging the WAN port into the
> Linksys and the LAN ports into your other devices, plug the ethernet cable
> that goes to the Linksys into one of the LAN ports and the other devices
> into the other LAN ports, essentially turning the router into a switch.
> 

>If you go this route, you may need to use a crossover cable to connect
>the two routers together. Generally, whenever you connect two like
>devices -- computer to computer, switch to switch, router to router --
>you need to use a crossover cable instead of a normal network cable.

If, by chance, you are networking Macs (I can't access the first post anymore) in this way, they are smart enough to recgonize and sue a regular ethernet cable as a cross-over cable, eliminating the need to buy another cable.  I am not sure if PCs are capable of this, but I somehow doubt it.

Apple also has networking with Firewire in the works:
"...Now the IP over FireWire Preview Release adds support for using the Internet Protocol - commonly known as TCP/IP - over FireWire. With this software installed, Macintosh computers and other devices..."
http://developer.apple.com/firewire/IP_over_FireWire.html

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> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:53:28 -0400, Jeff Wilhelm
> <thelist at summit7solutions.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Disable DHCP on the Netgear and instead of plugging the WAN port into the
> > Linksys and the LAN ports into your other devices, plug the ethernet cable
> > that goes to the Linksys into one of the LAN ports and the other devices
> > into the other LAN ports, essentially turning the router into a switch.
> > 
> 
> If you go this route, you may need to use a crossover cable to connect
> the two routers together. Generally, whenever you connect two like
> devices -- computer to computer, switch to switch, router to router --
> you need to use a crossover cable instead of a normal network cable.
> 
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