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