Hi.
Last night I went to a friend of mines business to see if I could help him get his network running properly. he as some 7 computers running windows 98 ( yuck) all connected to his Linksys BEFVP41 4 port router, with the help of an SMC hub to give enough ports.
Now 5 computers will easily connect to the network, but anything more will not get an IP. I installed Netbeui to check that the physical connection was OK, which it was. I then manually gave the other machines IP's in the correct range.. no go.
The router in the DHCP settings had a field for DHCP clients, which was set at 6, attempting to change this would pop up a msgbox saying it is out of range [0-6] allowed
The router is one of those special ones made for Virtual Private Networking, which he plans to utilize sometime
the Manual says this router is good for 253 users.. any insight to this?
Last night I went to a friend of mines business to see if I could help him get his network running properly. he as some 7 computers running windows 98 ( yuck) all connected to his Linksys BEFVP41 4 port router, with the help of an SMC hub to give enough ports.
Now 5 computers will easily connect to the network, but anything more will not get an IP. I installed Netbeui to check that the physical connection was OK, which it was. I then manually gave the other machines IP's in the correct range.. no go.
The router in the DHCP settings had a field for DHCP clients, which was set at 6, attempting to change this would pop up a msgbox saying it is out of range [0-6] allowed
The router is one of those special ones made for Virtual Private Networking, which he plans to utilize sometime
the Manual says this router is good for 253 users.. any insight to this?
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