Linksys HPN100 User Manual page 44

Multiple Network PC Cards
The following information is supplied to you for reference only.
Linksys does not provide technical support on the setup or troubleshooing of
multiple Network PC Cards or enabling or setup of routing in an operating sys-
tem. Please refer to the documentation of your operating system in order to
find out more on how to setup two Network PC Cards in a PC to communicate
with each other. The phoneline card can use either its RJ-45 Fast Ethernet con-
nection or RJ-11 phone wire connection at any given time. Both connections
can not be used at the same time.
Connecting to an Existing Network
If you already have a Fast Ethernet network and would like to add the
Phoneline card to this network, you need to use the card's RJ-45 connector and
connect the card to the existing Fast Ethernet network. It is not possible to con-
nect the card via RJ-11 directly to an existing Ethernet or Fast Ethernet net-
work. This can be done, but it requires the operating system to be able to route
the packets from an Ethernet card to the HomeLink card. Two cards have to
coexist in a PC (one Ethernet card and one HomeLink card). The operating sys-
tem has to be able to route packets between Network PC Cards, otherwise the
two different segments will not communicate with each other. Cable modems
are often an exception. See the next section for details about cable modem
sharing.
If you have an Ethernet or Fast Ethernet network running along side of a
HomeLink phoneline network in your home, you may have noticed that the two
networks of different speeds cannot communicate with one another. If you
would like to share files, printers and Internet access between your HomeLink
network and your 10/100 network, you can do so with a piece of hardware
called a Bridge.
A bridge is a device that trasmits data packets from one type of network to
another. The Linksys HomeLink Broadband Network Bridge connects your
10/100 network to your 1Mbps HomeLink network.
For more information about the HomeLink Broadband Network Bridge, visit
the Linksys Web site at http://www.linksys.com.
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