Question : Two computers on 10baseT? Subnet/routing problem.

I have two computers, in a university room. The university room has one 10baseT connection socket, to which the Win95 computer is connected. The Win95 computer has two network cards, one of which goes to the university network on the 10baseT socket, and the other of which goes to the other computer, by 10base2. I therefore have two IP stacks on the Win95 computer, and one IP stack for the other computer. The IP address (allocated by the university) for the Win95 computer is 131.111.136.67, and for the other computer 131.111.136.68. I have client and server software running on both computers that allow me the use of one keyboard, one mouse, etc. and that works fine, plus I have access from the Win95 computer to the university network, throught a gateway - 131.111.136.62, and thus to the internet. There are two things I would like to do:

1. Fix a problem, in that the Win95 computer does not find any computer on my subnet (131.111.136.x) except the other computer, because it seems to look at the 10base2 network card first. However, when faced with a further afield IP address to access, it correctly looks at the 10baseT card, because it is the only one with a gateway installed. I would like to be able to access my own subnet. I have tried fiddling with the subnet masks of the 10base2 network card. I have set it at 255.255.255.0, which gives it
the above situation, and 255.255.255.68, and 255.255.255.187 (the opposite of 68), but to no avail.
 
2. I would like my other computer to be able to listen to the outside world. I have been told "use Wingate", but it seems that it only allows one thing at a time to connect to each service, i.e. only one of the computers. This I do not want, since the Win95 computer is much better at internet than the other computer.

I know that if I installed a hub in my room, that would sort out the problem, but if there is a way of doing it in software, I would be delighted.

Answer : Two computers on 10baseT? Subnet/routing problem.

What you need is the ROUTE command. This will allow you to specify what network card to use for each IP address or subnet.

One thing is unclear to me though: What IP addresses are bound to the Win95 computer's network interface cards?

If you do not need the secondary computer to be able to connect to the university network, I suggest that you bind the 10base2 card to 192.168.0.1 and the Amiga to 192.168.0.2, netmasks 255.255.255.0. These addresses are reserved for use by private networks, and your small two-computer LAN is a good example of a private network.

If you setup Wingate on the Win95 machine, and specify 192.168.0.1 as proxy address on the Amiga, you'll be able to access http, ftp, and so on from the Amiga too.