Re: [SLE] Confused in Lincoln...(Or how to make a home network)

Both can lease an IP address from the DHCP server. One server can allocate many addresses. The server may be in the Cisco router. I suspect it is at your ISP instead.

HTH, Jeffrey The Cisco (a 675 router) keeps setting up Seth0 with the same address for

On Wednesday 14 March 2001 22:24, you wrote: the last two years. However, when I see some web sites send my apparent IP address back to me (while checking my site for security, for example) the return address is usually different. IF this router is only handing out the same address everytime how could it keep two different boxes separate? JLK

Quoting Jerry Kreps :

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On Wednesday 14 March 2001 18:21, you wrote:

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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:37:43 -0600, Jerry Kreps wrote:

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Method two: Using an active hub (I've got the NetGear DS104 in mind) with the Cisco, the Sony and the Beast plugged into a port on the hub. I really don't know if the Cisco 675 can work properly while connected to a hub and not an ethernet card in a PC. I don't think the hub would 'query' the Cisco for an IP address. (Am I misinformed?) Also, what the routing table would look like is another unknown.

this would work best. the hub would be transparnt to the router. the hub is a passive device, the computers would query the router thru the hub. and you would need only one nic in each machine.

How can this be? The NetGear DS140 is an active hub. Currently, on the Sony in rc.config, the value of IFCONFIG_0= "dhcpclient" and DHCPD_INTERFACE="eth0" shows that the IP address is assigned to eth0 by the Cisco dhcp server. If the Cisco router is plugged into the net which PC will it be acting as a dhcp server to? How can both lease the same dhcp server at the same time? This is why I was thinking that the Cicso router would remain attached to eth0 in the Sony, and some sort of line in the routing table, plus DNS, would connect Beth0 to Seth1. JLK