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. It is not (yet) planned to let the second computer on the Internet. As I suspect that the fellows who are coming to my place to install the ADSL are complete ignorants of a system which does not belong to Win***s I want to be prepared to interfere myself. The problems lies in the fact that I do not understand a jota about the whole thing although I have RTFM and more ;-(.
I suspect your 4 port router contains a dhcp server, (because its hard to find one of these that does not contain such a thing).
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.
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. Another (stupid) question: do I need those two ethernet cards (homenetwork and ADSL) and do I need to connect them both to the router? I assume that this computer can than be used as server and could then allow the other computer on the homenetwork to get access to the ISPvia the router. Is that correct?