[LvLug] Will this work ? (a bit off topic)

[Brian W. Snyder]

Faber Fedor wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:39:54AM -0400, Brian W. Snyder wrote:
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>>Since I am currently unemployed and don't have anyone to ask, I figured 
>>this list would be a good place to do so. Sorry if it's a bit off topic.
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>>Here's the scenario:  Three computers, two workstations and one server. 
>>Server runs W2K, one workstation runs W95 and the other runs W98. 
>>Currently, the server runs a medical billing application and the two 
>>workstations communicate with it via a hub. None of the three computers 
>>are connected to the Web. The doctor wants to make the computers (all 
>>three) go wireless for the Web 
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>Why?  What benefit is he going to get out of it?
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    He wants to go wireless but not change his internal medical 
application setup. He's already bought the wireless equipment too.
  

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>>while keeping the internal LAN working as 
>>is, through the hub; no changes to this at all. The server and W98 
>>machine will use USB wireless cards and the W95 will have a PCI wireless 
>>card. So, this will result in two LANS - one that is solely for the 
>>medical application and the second run through the wireless router for 
>>the Web. Will this work? 
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>Are you going to have two internet feeds?  One for each router?
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  One router (wireless), one internet connection to premises. He'll have 
the internal LAN that uses the medical billing application and a 
wireless one for the Web.

  

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>> I've checked the Usenet groups and I get the 
>>feeling that it should. Any thoughts? Any special considerations?
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>It should work.  The question is "Why?".  You could set up multiple IPs
>on the NICs (say 192.168.1.0 for the internal LAN and 10.10.10.0 for the
>"web LAN") and have the same effect without opening up his web LAN to
>wireless security problems..
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