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). -- _____________________________________ John Andersen