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.
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.
Another (stupid) question: do I need those two ethernet cards (homenetwork and ADSL) and do I need to connect them both to the router?
You should only need one Ethernet card per machine. Two won't buy you anything. Each machine plugs into the router. All the machines plugged into the routers 4 ports will be able to see each other, and access the internet via the router's other port - the one that connects to the ADSL.
(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. )
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?
Essentially, yes. The router also acts as a hub so all your machines can "see" each other. (Microsoft calls this the Network neighborhood. ) 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! ;-)
To make a long story short, the connection is there. Do not know how they did it but I am connected to the ISP from the telephone company and use that to send my email. To receive I am connected to my old ISP and it seems to work. But I do not see my other computer which is connected to the modem router also. How do I add that to the setup? And why is there only a ADSL watch program for CAPI modems? I see the activity of the ethernet card in Gkrellm but I would like to see more about what is going on.