> Ok heres the situation, My neighbor and I have a Peer to peer
> network using the Linksys PCI II ethernet cards. What we want to
> know is, Is it possible for a third friend to use dial up networking
> to connect to one of us and race along with us on our network? If
> so how? We've both destroyed our minds trying to figure out how to
> set this up. Anyone have any ideas? We really would like to get
> our third friend in on it 3 human drivers against a field of
> computer controlled cars is bound to be dangerous and a lot of fun.
You can, but not with what MS provides as far as I know. You could set
up another machine running Linux (a free Unix-like OS) which will
allow the dialup machine to be logically added to your local net. At
that point, he will be on your net; the only apparent difference will
be that his latency will be higher and his bandwidth lower.
This Linux box could be as low end as a 486-33 with 8MB of RAM, an
Ethernet card, a modem, a cheap display card, no monitor, no mouse,
small hard drive (could probably even boot it from a floppy if you
don't have a spare old hard drive lying around.)
Best place to start is buying a Linux distribution (I personally use
RedHat, and 5.0 is the latest there) and comp.os.linux.networking. Be
forewarned, if you know nothing about networks and less about Unix,
this will *not* be an easy task to accomplish. If you're conversant in
Unix and TCP/IP, it will take a day or two of fiddling around to make
it work.
---Jim
View in a fixed width font obviously:
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| Ethernet Hub |
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| You | |Friend| | Linux |
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|Modem|
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<-- Above here is your house -->|
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|Telephone Co.|
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<-- Below here is friend #3 --> |
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|Friend| |
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