On Sunday 19 December 2010 13:17:51 Dale wrote: > I found a how to. I read it. This is what I got out of it. It > sounds like I need to let the modem use DHCP with the phone company.
Correct. > Then I need to set the ethernet that comes toward the router to say > 192.168.1.2 then set the router to 192.168.1.5 or something to come > to my puter. Those two addresses must be on the same network segment, but they aren't - you have your router in between (it routes traffic between one network segment and the other). The side of the router that's connected to the modem can have that address, but the side that's connected to your computers can't have 192.168.1.X. Try 192.168.2.1, say, and your computers 192.168.2.2, 192.168.2.3, ... > Best I can figure, no two can have the same IP. Each device has two > IPs, one coming in, one going out. Yes, each address belongs to an interface, not to a computer, modem etc. Think of it as the address of one end of a piece of wire. > I think the how to may have made this worse. :-( Nah - sounds to me like you're getting there... :-) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
