Hi Donald,
Here is my setup:
The cable feed goes into the cable modem.
The modem is into a Linksys one-port router.
The router is into an ethernet hub.
2 computers, 1 printer and an Airport Base Station are connected to the hub
via ethernet cables.
A third computer has an Airport card so that it can share the modem too.
The reason for the router is, this allows the cable modem connection to be
shared with more than one computer. The router puts up the firewall. The
router is assigned the IP address from the cable company. It then assigns a
DHCP address to each device on the network. I have had as many as 5
computers using the cable connection simultaneously.
on 4/22/2002 9:07 PM, Donald Keenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OK, stupid question. What exactly is your router in this case? My cable
> modem has the ethernet cable on one end running into my computer's
> port , with the cable connecting to the modem just below. i don't have a
> firewall as of yet, but couldn't quite understand how you're getting
> that protection with a router. Is that like a hub?
> Thanks,
> Donald
> On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 08:51 PM, Tuba guy wrote:
>
>> Amber,
>> My router has a firewall feature, so I don't use a software firewall.
>> Cheers,
>> John
>>
>> on 4/22/2002 10:35 AM, Amber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> I know this has been discussed before but I am just wondering, how many
>>> people here with constant internet connections (i.e. ADSL or Cable
>>> Modem) use Firewall software ?
>>> Amber
>>
>>
>
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