Windoze laptop address allocation :-(

[Thomas Charron]

On 5/31/07, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> As incredibly knowledgable as I am in linux I'm a total dolt in windoze.
> For reasons that just horrify me I have to take posession of a winblose
> laptop which when used at home will be NATing out through my server. Any
> computers I have in house are running linux and all have static addresses
> assigned.
> Can some kind soul tell me what I need to do (prefereably at both ends) so
> that when I plug my laptop into the hub it'll get an address? The topology
> is that the server plugs into the cable modem and the server has two NICs.
> The hub plugs into the other NIC.

  The same sort of things you'd do with a Linux box in the same
situation.  :-)  Use static addresses if you like.  Or, set up a DHCP
server running on the internal NIC.

  If this seems daunting, buy a 50$ linksys and make life easier.  :-)

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-- Thomas