On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 15:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Fernando Augusto Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Something I missed... do your Debian box has an ethernet port? > > I believe your Cable Modem does have an ethernet port as well. > > > > If it is so, your just connect them with an cross-over 10BaseT cable, > > and you deploy your security measures, as well as monitoring and routing > > issues. > > Not cross-over cable. Or maybe it depends on cable modem? Mine works > with a patch (straight) cable. > > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) > >
Well, formerly straight cables were used to connect DTE to DCE. DCE-DCE or DTE-DTE shall be connected cross-over. DCE - data communication devices, like switch, modems, routers. DTE - data terminal devices: hosts. -- Ms. Eng. Fernando Augusto Bender Pesquisador em Controle Automático 51 8401 4413 Use Linux: http://www.debian.org Comer, beber e amar. O resto não vale um níquel. Lord Byron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
