help: DHCP & cable-modem
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Fri Jul 2 18:23:29 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:11, Jon Shorie wrote:
> On Friday 02 July 2004 10:45, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 22:09, javac at mail.com wrote:
> > > i have a cable modem, and periodically lose my internet connection.
> > > Presumabely, my provider is changing my IP and FC1 isn't automatically
> > > detecting the new IP. ?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > javac at mail dot com
> > In may area there is a cable company whose service fails regularly.
> > See also if your IP address is changed. If not then most probably it is
> > outside of your box.
> I have a simple solution, and this is what I did at home. I purchased a
> d-link hardware router with firewall. It only costs between $20 and $40
>
> Here are two links to tiger direct for this part:
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=618593&Sku=D700-2059&CatId=198
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=328846&Sku=D700-2050%20P&CatId=198
>
> You then connect up your pc to the router and then the router to the cable
> modem. Make sure that the modem is powered off when you do this.
>
> When you bring everything up, the pc will get its internet connection from the
> router and it just works.
>
> In fact, this router permits up to 4 pc's to share the connection (or more
> with an uplink cable) as well as providing a local dhcp service to your
> network. Finally, you can set it up to provide you with network address
> translation so that your local machines are on a non-routable subnet.
>
> The biggest benefit of something like this is that it increases your machine's
> security by providing an additional layer between you and the internet.
Frankly I don't believe that. Although it removes the idiot factor (of
Duh.. factor as Homer puts it)
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Ow Mun Heng
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