On Sunday 01 May 2005 14:48, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 30 April 2005 11:14 pm, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Sunday 01 May 2005 12:24, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 30 April 2005 09:10 pm, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
As I am preparing for an ADSL connection I already have added an other Ethernet card as eth1and an ADSL 4 port router.
If so just set your computers to get their ip via dhcp. In fact you can test this bit before the adsl dude gets there because the router does not need a internet connection to allow you to create your local network.
Tried it out and doing a ping to the other computer my computer started dialing. The other computer was hapely pinging.
The router can usually be configured by pointing your web browser to what ever your own IP (except a 1 in the last octet).
Indeed, the router contains a DHCP server. The last octet from my isp is a 2 so I can leave that in the webbrowser.
No, I'm talking about the last octet of the IP your router gives to each machine, not the IP your ADSL modem gives the router.
The Router will get its IP from the modem. Don't worry about that. The Router will hand out IPs to any machine connected ti the 4ports that requests one.
Does that mean that I do not have to give my computers names and an address? Up to now in /etc/hosts I had to have the names and addresses. Or does that not change?
(To add one more layer of confusion to the mix... MANY, (but not all) ADSL modems come with a built in router and 4 ports. In this case you will not really need a separate router. )
Like the router I have.
You can share printers, etc. But one step at a time....
Computers Plug into the Router, Router Plugs into the ADSL Modem, ADSL modem plugs into the phone line ... Nothing But Net! ;-)
Sure and it seems easier than I thought. The two computers are talking again with each other and I wait for the technical fellow to mess everything realy up ;-) Hope you will be around to help me out.