On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 19:47 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 05 June 2009 00:51:12 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> Gerhard Magnus wrote: > >>> I recently had to deal with my ISP about a connectivity problem that > >>> turned out to be on their end. (The tech referred to linux as lie-nux > >>> and insisted on doing everything in XP which I fortunately had > >>> dual-booted.) But in the process of working through this it was > >>> necessary for me to describe the way I'd set up my LAN here and he > >>> seemed incredulous. This wouldn't bother me except that I've gotten this > >>> reaction before from people in the outside world but never an > >>> explanation. So I'm asking: is there something weird about this > >>> structure? Is there some "better" or more standard setup? > >>> > >>> The DSL modem Actiontec modem provided by Quest plugs into the phone > >>> jack. The Actiontec is an older model with only one ethernet plug. Since > >>> I have four boxes, two of which are dual booting Fedora and XP, I have > >>> an ethernet cable connecting the modem to the DSL plug of a Linksys > >>> router. I then have separate cables connecting the four outlets on the > >>> router to each of the four boxes. (I did all this cabling at a time > >>> before wireless routing was as available and cheap as it is today.) > >>> > >>> Each of the six operating systems (4 linux and 2 XP) has a static IP > >>> address and each has a firewall. I have NFS running on the linux > >>> systems. There's another firewall on the router, which is currently > >>> port-forwarding only ssh and torrent data from the outside world. > >>> > >>> I thought I'd check this out before going further.... > >>> > >> Well, I only have 2 PCs and a printer with wired connections - the > >> rest are wireless connections. I also have a virtual machine or two > >> with a bridged connection. They all go through a Netgear wireless > >> router. I have static addresses for most of the machines, but I did > >> it using the dhcp server configuration. (If I change NICs, I have to > >> change the dhcp server configuration.) > >> > >> About the only strange this is that I have 2 IP addresses set up for > >> my laptop - one for the wired connection, and one for the wired > >> connection. (3 if you count when it makes a VPN connection from > >> somewhere else...) > >> > > Isn't it unusual to connect the modem to the DSL socket on the router? The > > only time I've set up one where I had to use the supplied modem I used the > > router as a switch, connecting the modem to one of the LAN sockets. > > > I assumed he was just using the wrong nomenclature, since it appears to be > impossible to do, the DSl socket has to be POTs (four wire) not RJ45 (XbaseT). > So I assumed that he just meant the external network socket, which he called the > DSL socket. Or maybe he has a router with an interesting labeling, who knows. I reported the labeling wrong. I have a cable from the "Ethernet" socket on the modem (the only such outlet) to a socket labeled "Internet" (not DSL) on the router -- which is what I assume you mean by the external network socket. > > I really don't see how he gets all those static IPs, unless he means private > network IPs not available to the outside. > Yes, they are private network IPs (192.168.xxx.xxx) -- I was trying to distinguish between IPs that are fixed and the ones assigned by DHCP. Is the "static IP" term reserved for actual Internet addresses? > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
