P2P network

[Karanislove]

I emailed Dave:

Could u please help me in setting up a Peer to peer network...Plzz

I have a patch Cable and Cat 5e Cable,
Let me tell you what i have tried up until now.....
1. I have one pc with two network cards Suppose its PC A and second with only one network card, suppose its PC B.
2. So PC A is connected to the modem.... to the internet..
3. I have setted the IP Address of second network card on PC A as 192.168.2.1 and IP address of PC B's network card as 192.168.2.2.
4. I was able to ping from PC A. From PC B, ping function was working sporadically.
5. Stopped firewall on both the machines.
5. I dont have floppy drive on PC A so that i can run and copy that P2P network wizard and put it on another PC.
6. Anything which i m missing , your help will be appreciated......

firstly you need to configure PC A as a router, i've only ever used two systems each with 1 NIC and linked together one after the other, similar to this

but it doesn't necessarily have to be a ring, radial peer to peers also work well

or if you use a hub / switch

I'm actually going to setup a small LAN in a few months using IPCop as the OS of the router PC

BTW: i don't know about XP, i would prefer to discuss this in open forums (cos i may be wrong, then others can correct me)

 

[Karanislove]

I dont know how to configure PC as a router :ohah:
Help~!

 

[donkey42]

I dont know how to configure PC as a router :ohah:
Help~!

i may have being wrong about using a system as a router, although that how you do it in *nix, presumably your referring to XP or vista

BTW: as time goes by i remember less & less about XP, try searching wiki, as i don't feel comfortable advising about something i've not used, sorry[ot]i should have checked this thread before i PM'd you again[/ot]

 

[Karanislove]

I have searched on the net but cudnt find anything useful yet... They are says use that disk or so..... But i dont have a floppy drive :(

I did this peer to peer when i was in ma skul but i dnt know y m failing to do it now.