Re: Setting up a Home Network

Mahesh

>> setting up  a home  network, and have  to connect two  machines, each
>> with one Network card on them. The machines will be in different

[..] 

>> connection  to  the   net  is  through  a  Huawei   BSNL  broad  band
>> router/modem

The Huawei broadband box has about 4 RJ-45 ports to which other NICs
from other PCs could be connected.  This ADSL box has an embedded dhcp
server, it can allocate from a pool of dynamic IPs if you have a dhcp
client running on these machines.  Nothing else is needed, even a
switch/hub is not really necessary.  The Huawei box with model MT-841
has these features. 

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