> On 30/04/2006, at 8:25 PM, Clive Young wrote: > >> Hi Paul >> I've just bought a Dual 1.8 G5 (I have UAD and Powercore PCI) and am >> about to try running my Dual867 G4 as a node. >> Any issues outside of the manual I should know about? Do you use the >> ethernet card to free up your ethernet connection on the G5? >> Cheers > On Apr 30, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Paul Najar wrote: > > No. My g4's standard ethernet port is 10/100 so I put the Gigabit > ethernet card in my G4 to give it a gigabit (1000) port and I talk to > my G5 over this port as the G5 already has a Gigabit port as > standard. This has the added benefit of turning my G4 into an > internet server. You need two ethernet ports to do this. I use my > 10/100 port for my cable modem (WAN) and my Giga port for my local > network. It works great even when the node is heavily loaded. Paul, I just installed a gigabit switch and have both Macs plugged in as well as the cable modem. The purpose of all this was to try out my laptop as a node, which I haven't done yet. However, internet is really sketchy now. It seems you are using the gigabit ethernet only for node use. Is that through a switch or crossover cable? I can put together the same setup you have, so my two 1-gigabit-port computers would access the internet through the G4 with 2 ports? Is there a reason that would work better than the switch-based "star" formation I am currently using? Thanks, Gregory