Connecting with a node behind a router/hub

[576869746568617]

You only have to do the subnetting if the router doesn't support Network Address Translation, or NAT (most do support NAT). With NAT, all you have to do is set the PCs to use a dynamically assigned IP (DHCP).

[extremez]

Originally posted here by decyberworld
if i understood u very well, i guess u just have to do a little subnetting to save ur self all the stress. if u want only two nodes on your network, u will have to sub net ur router ip
233.346.45.31 using a submask 254, then u got ur self too network ips u can assign to ur comp and that of ur dad. :d

LOL thats the most colorful advice I've seen in awhile

[Phonedog911]

ok, i get the forwarding stuff, but whats this about subnetting? i dont really know anything about subnetting. can somebody how to do this? i tried reading one of the newbie tuts on tcp/ip and the subnetting portion didnt really get through... it makes my head hurt
btw, my router does support NAT.
thanx for the help

[576869746568617]

There's really no easy simple way to explain subnetting, as it can get complex once you get away from standard subnetting and start talking about VLSM and supernetting. With that said, try these links for info on subnetting, as well as TCP/IP in general:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0791.txt

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1918.txt?number=1918

http://www.learntcpip.com

http://www.learntosubnet.com

http://www.protocols.com

http://www.ralphb.net/IPSubnet/

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6287

http://www.jackmccarthy.com/TCPIP/IPTable/

Hope they help

[decyberworld]

Originally posted here by Phonedog911
ok, i get the forwarding stuff, but whats this about subnetting? i dont really know anything about subnetting. can somebody how to do this? i tried reading one of the newbie tuts on tcp/ip and the subnetting portion didnt really get through... it makes my head hurt
btw, my router does support NAT.
thanx for the help

thnx. i am a beauterfly. i like colors.

u can learn basic subnetting quickly as simply by reading todd lemmel's book on ccna. if u cant buy it find it. just the chapter 3 u need.