The Linksys BEFSR41 cable modem/DSL router is available for some decent
prices at Amazon and other places. An associate bought one on sale for
$105, but when I checked the site he bought it at, it was back up to $120.
Also, the router supports MAC spoofing, so you can change the MAC address
of the WAN port to the same address as the NIC you currently use on your
cable modem. AT&T BB use the MAC address to validate you. Also, make sure
you install firmware level 1.37 or later. 1.34 is the first release with
the Mac Spoofing. 1.37 also fixes some bugs including a security bug in the
remote access.
"Mansur, Warren" wrote:
> Forgot to mention that you can buy the Linksys DSL router or a switch at
> Best Buy, and probably any other store that sells computer products. For an
> ethernet card, what I always do is go to
> http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/, and print out the list of supported
> ethernet cards. Then, I buy cards that are mentioned there. If they are
> supported by redhat, you know there is at least a Linux driver (for any
> distribution) for that card out there somewhere. Nowadays many cards are
> supported by Linux. If you want a 100 MBIT LAN you'll only want to get 100
> or 10/100 cards.
>
> If you know how to recompile a kernel, then you can also get a list of
> supported drivers by running make menuconfig and looking under the "Network
> Device" section. If the card driver is in there, you know for sure that the
> ethernet card is supported.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mansur, Warren
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 6:20 PM
> To: 'Tom Rauschenbach'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: first LAN
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you want DSL or a cable modem? If so I recommend getting LinkSys
> DSL/Cable router. It acts as a 10/100 switch internally. It also acts as a
> gateway to your DSL modem/Cable modem. Here's how it works (overview):
>
> 1) The linksys router either uses dhcp or a static address to gain a
> connection to the outside world through your DSL modem or Cable Modem
> 2) It then acts as a DHCP server that hands out local addresses to your
> local computers (you can also use static local addresses)
> 3) When a computer wants to talk to an external host, such as
> www.google.com, the computer sends its packets to the linksys router, and
> the linksys router acts as a gateway and sends them to google.com.
>
> The linksys router is configured via a web browser from any of your
> connected computers.
>
> So, in short, all you have to do is plug your computers into this linksys
> router, and they can communicate with each other and the outside world. You
> don't have to configure one computer to act as a gateway, the linksys router
> does that for you.
>
> You can forward ports to different computers if you wish, for example if you
> want to be able to connect through ftp from outside into your LAN, then you
> can configure the router to send all ftp requests through to one of your
> internal computers.
>
> If you just want to create a LAN that doesn't talk with the outside world,
> then just get 1 10/100 switch (with enough ports to support your number of
> computers), and as many cat 5 (100 Megabit) cables as you need to connect
> your computers to the switch. Then, for each computer, configure the
> network as the following:
>
> gateway: no value
> subnet mask: choose any one, as long as it's the same on each computer (e.g.
> 255.255.255.0)
> ip address: choose an IP address differing only by the last number, so if
> you had three computers you could use (the first three numbers are mostly
> arbitrary although a few are restricted):
>
> 149.159.118.1
> 149.159.118.2
> 149.159.118.3
>
> Then, your computers can talk with each other with no problem, and even WINS
> will work since they are local. You'll have a true 100 MBIT network
> (fast!!)
>
> I recommend a switch instead of a hub because switches are "smart" and they
> only send packets to the computer that needs to hear them, whereas a hub
> just sends everything to all computers.
>
> Hope I answered your question. Not sure what type of LAN you are looking to
> make.
>
> Regards,
>
> Warren
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Rauschenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 5:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: first LAN
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Now that my new Slackware machine is up and running everything my old
> machine
> did (and I'm *this* close to getting Oracle up) I want to build my first
> LAN.
> I guessing I need a hub and a couple of NICs. Eventually there will be at
> least one Windows machine on the LAN but for now it will just two Linux PCs.
>
> Anybody want to recommend what parts I should get ? Where ? Cable length
> is
> not an issue, nor is cable installation.
>
> TIA
>
> TomR
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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