On 3 Jul 2003, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 11:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On 3 Jul 2003, Daniel Dui wrote: > > > > > Here is my problem: > > > > > > I have a RH9 box with two network cards. One network card connects to a > > > cable modem and the other to a hub. I would like to share the Internet > > > connection with other computers in the house. > > > > > > I was hoping to find a "share connection" tick box somewhere in the > > > network configuration options, but I could not. > > > > > > I had a look at various howtos, but they look much more complicated than > > > they should be. All I am trying to do is set up a little home network! I > > > am surprised that still there is not a simple and easy way to do a > > > simple and easy thing in RH9. > > > > why are you making this so difficult? why not have the cable modem > > go to the hub, and let the hosts all plug into the hub? that's what > > we're doing here, and it's pretty easy. > > > > unless you have a static IP for that first box and want it to be > > visible to the net, that is. > > > > rday
i'm not sure if we're just not communicating here, but let me clarify what's going on. > Most cable systems won't allow that to work. I work for a cable > company, and we only allow 1 MAC address to be associated with the cable > modem. and? ... all that's connected to the cable modem is a single linksys hub. that's a single MAC address. what's the problem? > Our system won't let that work at all. I know comcast is the > same way, and I believe optonline work the same as well. I know your in > the UK, wherever did you get that idea? > so I have no idea how they run it there. you can try it, but > you'll lose the ability to run a hardware firewall. the linksys hub has some configurable *rudimentary* filtering, but i run iptables on my personal machine. > Now you could connect the cable modem to a managed switch. I know a few > HP switches can do what you want to do, but they're like $2000+ ok, pay attention. DSL outlet -> DSL modem -> linksys 4-port hub with wireless. from linksys hub: - one wired PC running XP - one wireless access laptop running RH 9 cost of linksys hub: $89 US. and yes, it works, it really does, given that both machines are on the net constantly, as you can verify from my incessant posts to RH-related mailing lists. :-) rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies Unix, Linux and Open Source training Waterloo, Ontario www.enoriver.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
