Hi! I have a "simple" problem which I can't manage to solve and it is that i've got a pc with 2 card adapters running w2k professional. I can't get the pcs on both cards connected. Which steps should i follow to activate the ip routing? Thank you very much!

what are you trying to do, share internet connections? if so, one nic will go to your dsl/cable and the second will go to a hub/switch (or directly to the other pc but you will have to use a crossocer cable and NOT a standard patch)

It sounds to me that you are trying to connect to PCs to your windows 2000 machine by connecting their network cards directly into two network cards installed in your Win2k machine. If this is the case, you will need a couple of crossover cables or a hub in order to network these computers. You would be better off with the hub as it is a little more flexable.

Hi again! The pc with 2 nics (w2k professional) is connected to a lan and I just want another pc to work with the same lan (via the second nic) as i can't connect this pc to the hub. hub (lan)--- w2k pro --- pc (to work with lan) I've got a crossover cable to link the w2k pc with the pc to connect to lan, but I can't manage to "talk to pc". The nics are fine as I've tested them, but I suppose I must activate something to get the ip routing done. Thank you!!

HHMMM. This one is a little tricky. You got two Crossover cables coming into one PC. Both acting as LAN Cards. Don't think Microsft Infrastucture supports such a design. In the old days the only way to get three computers connected with out the hub is the good old and still good BNC Connectors. The one's that look like a Coax cable from the back of your T.V if ya know what I am talking about. I think what you are doing now cannot be acomplished. A crossover cabl;e was designed for One - One connection. Not One - Many. In other words one crossover cable per PC with a maximum of two PC's. It's impossible to get more then two computers linked via Crossover cable system. Cheers people.

I beleive you can do it. W2K has an inbuilt router. So the machine can just route all requests onto the second NIC cards address Paul