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Hello! So I am currently staying at my friend's house where the Network setup is very odd. We are trying to do some LAN games and for that we would obviously be on the same network. The current way we have it set up is that his laptop(one of the few devices that for some odd reason CAN even connect to his router) is connected through ethernet into his main PC. His PC has 2 ethernet ports and I was wondering if I could daisy chain it to my PC to allow us to do a few LAN games and maybe some online. I am quite a novice when it comes to networking but I know my way around.

 

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-Xavier

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CPU: Xeon E3 1230 V3(Haswell) @ 3.7GHz Motherboard: AsRock B85M-ITX RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP Blue @ 1600MHz Storage: Intel 520 Series 120(Boot), Seagate Barracuda 500GB @ 7200RPM, Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB @ 5400RPM GPU: ZOTAC GTX 970 @ 1.4GHz Case: Node 304 Power Supply: CX430

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You might need to do some configuration on the NICs on his PC, but it's definitely possible.

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You might need to do some configuration on the NICs on his PC, but it's definitely possible.

How would I go about doing that? Would it be in the BIOS or in the OS?

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CPU: Xeon E3 1230 V3(Haswell) @ 3.7GHz Motherboard: AsRock B85M-ITX RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP Blue @ 1600MHz Storage: Intel 520 Series 120(Boot), Seagate Barracuda 500GB @ 7200RPM, Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB @ 5400RPM GPU: ZOTAC GTX 970 @ 1.4GHz Case: Node 304 Power Supply: CX430

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In the OS. I don't know the exact steps, unfortunately.

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In the OS. I don't know the exact steps, unfortunately.

Do you know anybody who would know?

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CPU: Xeon E3 1230 V3(Haswell) @ 3.7GHz Motherboard: AsRock B85M-ITX RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP Blue @ 1600MHz Storage: Intel 520 Series 120(Boot), Seagate Barracuda 500GB @ 7200RPM, Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB @ 5400RPM GPU: ZOTAC GTX 970 @ 1.4GHz Case: Node 304 Power Supply: CX430

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What exactly is his network setup their might be a better way to do this.

Like his router etc.?

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CPU: Xeon E3 1230 V3(Haswell) @ 3.7GHz Motherboard: AsRock B85M-ITX RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP Blue @ 1600MHz Storage: Intel 520 Series 120(Boot), Seagate Barracuda 500GB @ 7200RPM, Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB @ 5400RPM GPU: ZOTAC GTX 970 @ 1.4GHz Case: Node 304 Power Supply: CX430

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I assume your friend is using ICS in Windows. Follow along with this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-internet-connection-sharing#1TC=windows-7

 

If your friend has a router then why doesn't he just connect his other PCs to other ports on the router? If he can't run another cable to wherever he has his PC, then use a cheap switch to share the connection without bothering with software routing.

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Router settings would be one yes. Is it inaccessible? does it have a mac white-list preventing the other devices from connecting?

To my knowledge it doesnt have a mac whitelist and it is inaccessible.

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CPU: Xeon E3 1230 V3(Haswell) @ 3.7GHz Motherboard: AsRock B85M-ITX RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP Blue @ 1600MHz Storage: Intel 520 Series 120(Boot), Seagate Barracuda 500GB @ 7200RPM, Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB @ 5400RPM GPU: ZOTAC GTX 970 @ 1.4GHz Case: Node 304 Power Supply: CX430

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