We have a netwerk (server 2003's and Windows XP's) with two sdsl-modems. One
Mailserver and one Dataserver which can connect to each other. The
mailserver is getting the mail through modem one. You can reach the
Dataserver by VPN through modem two. Everthing works fine, there is ...

Do I really need a router?
I am presently on a dial-up 56K connection, an average homeuser with a
desktop computer. My OS is WinXP SP2. I work with LUA, use the in-build
firewall and Seconfig XP.

I have a simple home network with a desktop wire connected to a router and a
laptop connected wirelessly. Both PCs have firewalls (WinXP/2 and CA). With
the firewalls set to ON I cannot ping the two PCs from each other. If I
switch the firewalls to OFF then I can ping each PC ...

After applying SP2 update on our Windows 2003 x64 server, the internet
explorer stopped working. DNS resolution works fine and so does ping.
Thinking that it might be browser(IE7) issue, I even installed Mozilla
Firefox but that seems to have same issue. Below is what works.

DCHP
If I have reserved IP addresses for each PC/Games Machine do I need to
set manual IP on each machine & if I do will this effect anything ?
also which if any is the best option, reserve IP's in a list on the

Following situation: A modem with nat, port 3389 (remote desktop) open to a
computer inside. There may only be a few computers from outside to enter
that computer inside. So I want to filter ip-addresses. I don't want to
filter IP-addresses in that modem because that is to ...

this network is soo simple:
static IP DSL line in bridge mode from Embarq with internal box ip
192.168.50.1
Linksys router with ip 192.168.50.10

Any help on this one would be greatly appreociated.
I have two ftp servers (Xlight) on local as follows
A: 192.168.1.20 listening on port 21
B: 192.168.1.2 listening on port 44