Lisje
05-15-02, 10:22 AM
In the hopes of making my weekend project go smoothly, I'm asking for advice. I plan to link via a D-Link router (purchased) with my roommate's computer to share Sprint DSL PPPoE. My computer is an Athlon 1000(or 1.0?) running WinXP Home, his is an older Athlon 700, running WinXP Pro. Will it make any difference which computer is the server? I'd prefer to use mine, but I'm not sure how Windows will like it, or if there are any inherent advantages to Pro being the server. Any input would be appreciated.
A second (far less urgent) question is I found I needed to manually assign part of my IP for some sites, the number for which I had to call my provider to get. I believe it had something to do with the entire DSL network being treated as a single NAT because of PPPoE, if that makes sense. Now the router documentation says it will assign them for the network. Does this mean the sites that required this will no longer be accessible to me? One of them is actually affiliated with Microsoft, why they would put out something incompatible with PPPoE is beyond me...
A second (far less urgent) question is I found I needed to manually assign part of my IP for some sites, the number for which I had to call my provider to get. I believe it had something to do with the entire DSL network being treated as a single NAT because of PPPoE, if that makes sense. Now the router documentation says it will assign them for the network. Does this mean the sites that required this will no longer be accessible to me? One of them is actually affiliated with Microsoft, why they would put out something incompatible with PPPoE is beyond me...