Wireless Networking or Hardwired???

[Michael Carter]

Thanks for that information Ivar. That was very helpful.

My question though was about having two network cards for the server computer. One for internet throught the router and the other strictly for FS.

Is this right? Or will one network card on the server computer with different IP addresses for internet access and FS networking suffice?

[ivar hestnes]

I am not that technical gifted

I`d guess you just put both computers into the router. Thats the easyest way You router has built in switch I guess???

One network card in each computer.

[paulj]

BSW

the use of a second network card would be redundant if both were going to be plugged into the same router/cat v system.
What you should do in that case is plug one network card into the router and a second card into a separate hub/switch etc.

However there should be an easier way to achieve what you want.

In the configuration software for your router you should have an option to set up your local network and list IP addresses that that you do not want to have access to the internet. That way all your pc's would still be plugged into the same router/hub but only the ones you nominate will be able to use the internet while they all can still talk to each other.
Of course an even simplier way is to not list a gateway address in the individual pc network setup. If the pc doesn't know what the gateway address is it should not be able to use it to gain access to the outside environment and the router will simply act as a hub for those pc's.
Whatever way you do it, you don't need another network card.

hope this helps

Paul

[Michael Carter]

Thank Paul. I understand now.

I just wanted to keep the upstairs computer from accessing the main server. I only want the upstairs computer to have internet access through the router.

[sas550]

You can also assign a bogus ip as primay/secondary DNS on the pc's you don't want on the internet. Then there's no possibility to surf using url's. You can still use internet via ip adresses though. You can also stop the traffic from XP SP2 Firewall.