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Physical Network Setup

Ok, for your home network, it’s time to do some exercises, here is how I do physical network setup. I will use D-Link's DI-604 broadband router as an example. You can use other type of router according to your needs. Please prepare some straight network cable as well.

Connect the WAN port on router to your cable/DSL modem using straight cable, then connect computers’ network card to router’s LAN ports using straight cable also. You can connect up to 4 computers to this router. Power on the router after finish connecting, you should be able to see the WAN and LAN lights on the router.

Physical Network Setup

After setting up the network, we need to decide what IP addresses need to be used for router and computers. Click here for more explanation to do IP logical network setup and design.

For the setup that I’m using, I will use IP addresses 192.168.1.1-254, netmask 255.255.255.0.

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