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I have three windows xp home sp1 machines networked through a netgear ethernet hub. One of the machines has two ethernet cards, one on the mother board and a d-link DFE-530tx+. the computer is connected to the hub through the motherboard, and a dsl line is connected to the dlink. now i can connect to the internet fine, but i can't communicate with the other two computers. The other two computers see and communicate with each other just fine. How do i set up the one computer to connect both to the internet(dlink) and to the network (intergrated motherboard). If you can figure this out, you are the networking god.
 
Is there any reason why you are connecting the Internet directly to your PC and not to your Netgear HUB?
 
The system running dual nics needs to be set up as a gateway, then have the ip of the gateway in the two systems that are connected to the hub.
 
internet to hub

can i connect the dsl modem directley to the ethernet hub. I thought you could only do that with a router. or are a ethernet hub and a router the same thing. and in response to tlarkin, I don't want the other two computers to access the internet, so is setting the dual nic system as a gateway absoleutly neccesary. This network is in a video store, and the whole reason for it's being is so that we can have three work stations running the same rental program. only the dual NIC system needs to be able to connect to the internet.
 
your best bet is to just go spend 50 bucks on a router, hook up all three systems to it, and only allow the one mac address internet access. Less fuss, less hassle, pretty easy set up, before performance over a hub (it will be a switch instead) and added security features.

Plus, 50 bucks is not that much of an investment. I thought you were trying to share internet access to the system with dual nics, the gateway is not your solution.
 
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