wireless together with wired on XP

Hi there

I'm thinking to wirelessly LAN a laptop & desktop (both with dial-up), & the
same desktop to wired LAN to a back-up desktop (no internet) ....the primary
desktop to be the dial-up internet host.
All of them are on XP.

Is this gonna work?

At the moment it's wired LAN (laptop to 1 desktop) & dial-up with no probs.

thanks,
Shelley

"Shel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Hi there
>
> I'm thinking to wirelessly LAN a laptop & desktop (both with dial-up),
> & the same desktop to wired LAN to a back-up desktop (no internet)
> ....the primary desktop to be the dial-up internet host.
> All of them are on XP.

If it were me, I would go the route of using a dialup NAT router as the
gateway for the LAN and WAN, because of the protection the router provides
for attack from the Internet for the LAN.

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-NAT.asp

>
> Is this gonna work?
>

Then you might want to get a *wireless access point* and plug it into the
router so that the wireless machines can access the Internet and share
resources on the LAN. I would also connect the wired machine to the router,
to configure the WAP.

> At the moment it's wired LAN (laptop to 1 desktop) & dial-up with no
> probs.
>

Then I would implement IPsec on all the XP machines to secure the LAN and
configure IPsec to not allow access to and from the Internet for the wired
machine.

http://www.petri.co.il/block_ping_tr...with_ipsec.htm
http://www.analogx.com/contents/articles/ipsec.htm

Duane