[G4] Router setup question.

[Eric Wood]

Am 03.03.2009 um 12:22 schrieb John Niven:

>
> I have an Xserve setup at home that is running Tiger Server. It has  
> two ethernet ports. I also installed a four port pci ethernet card.  
> I'm trying to set it up to connect and share my internet with my  
> home lan.
>
> There is a very easy "wizzard" that does that. You tell it which  
> port has the "input" and which ports to share that on. My idea was  
> to use the extra ports to replace my networks switch. However the  
> wizard gives each "out" port a different address, like:
> 192.168.2.1
> 192.168.3.1
> ect.
>
> So when you connect a different computer to each port they can each  
> see the server, but not any of the other computers. I guess they are  
> all on different "LAN".
>
> I'm stretching the limits of my network knowledge here, but then  
> thats the whole point :-)
>
> How do I change the setup so all my macs can see each other?
>
> John

My first thought is to plug a switch or hub into one of those many  
ethernet interfaces, so that all of your computers can share that one.  
But I don't know what options exist for getting different subnets to  
see each other like that. Might be some kind of bridging available.

Eric W.