At 08:53 AM 5/25/99 -0400, Rod Upfold wrote [in part]:
>My question: Does the IP addresses that you have on your home network
>interfere with the providers IP address that they have given you while
>going to the internet through them....if it does...is there a way around
>it?
No, they don't interfere (if set up correctly). IP addresses are assigned to
interfaces, not hosts, and your gateway host simply has two interfaces
(typically eth0, an Ethernet card, and ppp0, a modem connection to an ISP).
You do want to be sure that ppp0 is specified as the defaultroute (it's a
pppd option) and, if you're using this host as a gateway for the entire LAN,
that the other hosts use it as their gateway (depending on the IP address
range for the LAN, you may also have to run IP Masquerading on the gateway
host). "man route" and "man pppd" will explain all of this to you in a lot
more detail than I can here.
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