Hi, If your ISP won't give you multiple IP's or will charge you more for them, you might consider a hardware router. I have a Linksys which connects to my cable modem and does ip masquerading for all the local machines to the internet. hth, --terry On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:49:55PM -0700, David Csercsics wrote: > >Ah. Well, it turns out that the only way I could have access to the > >internet is to run my laptop through the family computer; obviously, they > >don't know the first thing about a computer besides click this or that, > >and won't try linux whatever I say. Thus, this forces me to setup the > >family box as a router, and I have to run it through there. > > > > > > Well that shouldn't be necessary just get an ISP that will > give you multiple IP addresses and then you use a hub not a router > so that the computers and operating systems won't matter. We have a > Windows box here that is on the same cable modem as this one but the > cable company gives you up to 4 IP's so it's not a problem. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: (705) 422-0039 E-mail: terry at braille.uwo.ca Web: wasaga.dyns.net Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
