[COMP] Re: networking protocol question

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:54:23AM -0400, David Bruce Jr wrote:
> 
> Thanks Nigel
> 
Nils ;)

> you wrote:
> "You can do both, but yes .. Samba requires IP"
> 
> umm, so the netbuei (that's probably spelled wrong...)
> will only be useful for the communication between the
> 98 boxes...
> 
Correct!

> umm, sounds like I should do away with netbuei altogether.
> 
That's you choice, but it is a sane one ;)

> but I'm using a linksys...it's already assigned an ip because
> it's a dhcp server in addtion to what ever else it does
> (that I don't yet understand...port forwarding? filtering???)
> 
It does NAT like you stated before .. NAT stands for Network Address 
Translation.

More info on that technique:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definitionsSearchResults/1,289878,sid9,00.html?query=network+address+translation

> Can the nic have 2 ip addresses at the same time??
> 
If the software supoprts it, yes. It is the limitation of software, not of the
NIC.

> One assigned by the router and one for lan sharing?
> 
> Can a nic do that?

Yeap.

> 
> Or can I send both lan file sharing and Inet sharing via the
> same ip address?
> 

You can as well, yeap, since your router does NAT.

> <thinking out loud...>
> this rasies securtity questions...umm, maybe not...the internal
> ip addresses are translated thru the NAT and non routable via the
> Internet???
> 
> Am I on the right track or hopelessly confusing myself from
> almost
> enough info???
> 

Read the link .. it should help ;)

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