What different components make up a LAN?
2 computers with a network card and a cable to connect them together. 3 Computers and more need a HUB or a Router (routers have integrated network HUB) with multiple ports. Minimum is 2 computers to build a local access network. Hubs can be stacked to add more computers and therefore hubs have an up-link port To make a workgroup in lan, and all computers to be able to see each other and share files, all computers need the same network wrorkgroup ID. (windows sets Id to “workgroup” by default but you can change that). A workgroup can have many computers and one scoop of adresses in a dhcp server is 255 (0 to 254). A dhcp server can be a computer with integrated server software that acts as a dhcp (dynamic host control processor) or a dhcp server can be part of a router. It gives every computer an address once it connects to it (unless you set one fixed manually, but then all PC’s in the lan need a fixed adress since, if you set one to a fixed adress and the address has been attributed t
