Have a nice day

Cheers,
Veli

I clarify a few terms that you have asked in the post:

DHCP: In the perfect world where the computers are connnected to a proper router etc., DHCP takes care of the job of assigning IP addresses to each of the computers. However, we are connecting two computers directly to each other in an ad hoc network, therefore there isn’t a DHCP available (well, Windows does have such a feature integrated into it, but we shall not go into details for the sake of simplicity), hence the need to individually specify the IP addresses on each of the computers.

IP Address: A numeric address which identifies each and every of your computers connected to a network.

DNS Server: Changes a domain name (e.g. http://www.google.com) into the numeric counterpart (74.125.155.103). Computers understand numbers but not alphabets, hence when you type in google.com, DNS server has a role in changing the alphabets into the corresponding numbers so that the computer knows where to retrieve the website content. Try typing in 74.125.155.103 into the address bar and see what comes up

For the computer without an Internet connection:

“Automatic obtaining of the IP address” – which window pop up are you referring to?

Primary DNS address: 208.67.222.222
Secondary DNS address: 208.67.220.220

Default gateway would be the IP address of the computer which has an Internet connection

Hope this has helped

And thank you for the great tut. But i think something in the internet connection sharing section isn’t clear (well to me anyway:). So the questions: Do the automatic obtaining of the ip address is set on the machine without the internet connection?; Do the dns servers for the machine without internet connection stay the same?; and Do the default gateway on the machine with internet connection stays the same? Thank you in advance.

Cheers,
Veli

I have a software enviroment that allows me to “program” the device with specific attributes (check out this website for a better understanding http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-5916)

What I have trouble comprehending is why specific attributes are used. DHCP…I know what it stands for, but what does it MEAN…or Link-Local, IP address, Subnet Mask…and so on.

Is there a document or primer that is short/sweet that can help those of us that know enough to be dangerous…that can educate me on the nuances of Peer to Peer/Ad-Hoc communcation…
Should the IP addresses be different, subnet mask should be the same…what is special about the range 192.168……what is the Gateway or DNS Server when it is not used in an AD Hoc??

HELP!!

Thanks, Brad

Bandwidth estimation can be done using the tool Tautology Bandwidth Meter (google up for link)

The problem with wireless ad hoc networking is that security features such as WPA2 cannot be configured, and therefore this poses a threat towards the privacy of any data transferred between the two computers.

[Edit] Connectify has integrated security features into it (works only for Windows 7): http://www.connectify.me/