Yes. What "Mr. Arnold" (Duane said). Once you get the interconnection
architecture right, you've got a fighting chance of working everything else
out. There's a free series of movies here:

http://www.askmisterwizard.com/EZINE/index.htm

intended to help you visualize and understand that subject. Scroll down in
the largest window until you see this title:

Episode 10 Segment 1
NAT Routers Part 2: Connecting 2 or more PCs to the Internet through a
single Internet Address

I hope this helps!

Bob Bosen
www.AskMisterWizard.com
Computer Networking and Internetworking Made Easy thru Multimedia



"Mr. Arnold" <TheDog@It's-A-Dog'sWorld.COM> wrote in message
news:D8N7h.465$tM1.387@newsread1.news.pas.earthlin k.net...
> FDL-nj via HWKB.com wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone who replied... seems like I was overthinking the
>> setup
>> because I didn't want to mess up the connection I already had between the
>> primary PC and the modem...
>> So if I unplug the USB connection and use an ethernet cable from the
>> router to the primary PC that will eliminate the conflicting IP
>> addresses?
>>
>>
>
> The bottom line here is get the computers behind the router and not have
> the router behind a machine. The router is the gateway to the Internet and
> the computer should not be the gateway to the Internet, with the router
> behind the computer in a network situation, when there is a router sitting
> there. You should do the right thing.
>
> The router will get the IP from the modem and all machines connected to
> the router will get a DHCP IP from the router. That's the way it should
> happen.
>
> Duane :)