I find this whole thing a bit weird. You are taking some ancient computers,
and then want them to serve as high speed servers. You want a 1GHz
connection when your computer is not capable of handling 1GHz data
transfers internally.

What data from computer 1? Computer 1 is a slow computer. What kind of high
throughput is it going to handle?



subhas85@gmail.com (Avi) writes:

]Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@iki.fi.NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:<uVkqd.163$Rj5.39@read3.inet.fi>...
]> Avi wrote:
]> > i currently have a network containing about 6 comptuers, i recently
]> > aquired 2 additional computers, a 450mhz and a 500mhz, my plan is to
]> > make data servers out of them. However, i would like to have the
]> > 450mhz computer operate as my router, since my microsoft router (shit)
]> > seems to keep droping my connection every now and then. The other
]> > computer will be incharge of other high demanding processes which will
]> > involve data from computer #1. So what i want is a network according
]> > to the following diagram.
]> >
]> > [cable internet]<>------>|comp #1|<>----------<>|comp #2|
]> > | |
]> > | |
]> > |------<>|SWITCH|<>----|
]> > | | |
]> > |comp|---------<>| | |<>---------|comp#3|
]> > |
]> > |comp|
]> >
]> > *note that comp1 has 3 NICs; one 10/100mbps for the internet cable
]> > modem, one 10/100mbps to the switch for other comps to access, and one
]> > 10/100/1000mbps for direct connection to comp2, which i would like to
]> > be a gigabit connection, for data flexibility. I am running Fedora
]> > Core 3 on both comp1 and comp2. A problem that i see rising is,
]> > suppose comp1 wants to talk to a comp3, would the data path look like
]> > this,
]> >
]> > [comp1]-->[comp2]--->[switch]--->[comp3] or like this,
]> > [comp1]--->[switch]---->[comp3] ?
]> >
]> > detail instructions including commands on doing this would be
]> > appreciated.

]what i would like is for comp1 to be a router and provide internet for
]the entire network but also act as a file server. comp2 is a

Why would you use your slowest computer as a file server?

]fileserver but in addition it acts download 'server', mostly
]downloading torrents as well as sharing them, the reason i choose to
]have these services on comp2 instead of comp1 is because just incase
]comp2 crashes because of the downloads or other processes, my
]network's internet will not be down. comp2 shares files to other

You have set it up so everything goes through computer 1. Why would 2 crash
before 1?

]computers within the internal network. the reason i would like all
]internal computers to access comp2 via the switch is so that it
]doesn't create a additional load on comp1. if u could provide
]appropriate commands for iptables that would allow this routing to
]happen it would be highly appreciated.

iptables are irrelevant. It is the routing table which tells the data where
to go.

man route
or
man ip