Thanx to all who shared their thoughts, you've been really helpful guys
(as always).
As many pointed out, the crux of the question is my ISP who's only
giving me one IP number. You've helped me understand why a switch won't
do and why a router is needed.
So, for the time being, I will kee
On 21/04/11 02:56, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Dom put forth on 4/20/2011 1:25 PM:
I run Smoothwall on an old Athlon (K6) system that I was given. I
The K7 is the original Athlon. The K6 series chips had no marketing
name other than "K6", i.e. K6, K6-2, K6-2+, K6-3, K6-3+, etc.
The only issue I h
Howdy!
I already found good advice in one of the posts on your
question. Personally, I'd stick with pair of linksys
wrt54gl, putting dd-wrt on both or three of them and ma-
king it do the work. The site has tutorials for all of
situations one might experience.
For another approach, there is better
Hi Paul,
Paul E Condon wrote:
> I'm lurking here, looking to better understand a problem that I've never
had to confront: NAT, I understand requires translation tables, one entry
for each active tcp connection. This takes RAM. It also takes enough
CPU cycles to maintain this table --- set up n
Dom put forth on 4/20/2011 1:25 PM:
> I run Smoothwall on an old Athlon (K6) system that I was given. I
The K7 is the original Athlon. The K6 series chips had no marketing
name other than "K6", i.e. K6, K6-2, K6-2+, K6-3, K6-3+, etc.
> The only issue I have is that the latest upgrade to Smoothw
On 20/04/11 18:52, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/20/2011 06:08 AM, Klistvud wrote:
[snip]
What I had in mind is something like this:
http://www.ehow.com/how_6823201_use-switch-hub-instead-router.html .
Unfortunately, there are many posts on the Internet affirming that such
a configuration can't and
On 04/20/2011 06:08 AM, Klistvud wrote:
[snip]
What I had in mind is something like this:
http://www.ehow.com/how_6823201_use-switch-hub-instead-router.html .
Unfortunately, there are many posts on the Internet affirming that such
a configuration can't and won't work, because a switch can't give
Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> I'm lurking here, looking to better understand a problem that I've never
> had to confront: NAT, I understand requires translation tables, one entry
> for each active tcp connection. This takes RAM. It also takes enough
> CPU cycles to maintain this table --
On 20110421_003957, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Klistvud wrote:
> >I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've
> >heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers,
> >and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband
> >modem. Then, th
Hi,
Klistvud wrote:
I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've
heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers, and
I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband modem.
Then, the two families would connect their respective routers (we
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 01:08:22PM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> Unfortunately, there are many posts on the Internet affirming that
> such a configuration can't and won't work, because a switch can't
> give out two IP's if your ISP just gives you one. So, in doubt, I
This is the crucial point. If your
Klistvud:
> Dne, 20. 04. 2011 11:25:27 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a):
>> Klistvud:
>>>
>>> I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've
>>> heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers,
>>> and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband
* Jochen Schulz [110420 05:48]:
> Klistvud:
> > And here's what I need advice for:
> You are looking for a router (OSI layer 3), not a switch (OSI layer 2).
> It needs to have three distinct interfaces (1xWAN, 2xLAN). If it runs
...
> I think even a simple Linksys WRT54GL would suffice. AFAIK you
Dne, 20. 04. 2011 11:25:27 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a):
Klistvud:
> And here's what I need advice for:
>
> I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've
> heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers,
> and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our c
Klistvud:
> And here's what I need advice for:
>
> I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've
> heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers,
> and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband
> modem. Then, the two families would conn
Howdie, fellow Debianites!
Any networking guru lurking on the list?
Here's the situation. There's basically two (interrelated) families
sharing our broadband connection. In the other family, there's this
person who's downloading large numbers of files around the clock. As
we've just upgrad
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