Hello Noctaire, Thursday, December 22, 2005, 9:51:04 AM, you wrote:
N> First off, you don't have modems getting IPs on the computers -- they have N> network interface cards (NICs). These get a type of cable plugged into them N> that is called Category 5 (CAT5) and the connector on the end of it is an N> RJ45 connector (a bit bigger than a phone line's plug). You'll find the N> port to plug the cable into on the back of the PC. This is the same kind of N> cable that should have come with your cable modem and the Linksys router. N> IIRC, Linksys sends out a blue CAT5 cable with their routers (it's been a N> while). Exercising 'Overkill as Irony", here?<g> N> When you set up the OS (Windows, Linux), modern variants USUALLY detect and N> install the network card automagically. When they do this, the default N> configuration is to use DHCP. Hmmm... Red Hat and OpenBSD don't actually have 'default' behaviours, where TCP/IP configuration is concerned, IIRC. N> DHCP is the techie term for "get your IP somewhere else". In other N> words, the OS will send out a query on the network for IP N> information and a DHCP server will respond with the information. N> Given that information, the OS goes the next step and automagically N> configures itself to access the network. My experience with SBC DSL, on Windows 2000, Red Hat, and OpenBSD was non-automatic, in all cases... but then, I was 'reconfiguring'... moving from an old dial-up numbered CompuServe account (pre-CompuServe 2000... from the 1980's), that used an 'expect-reply' script, to log-on, on Windows 200 and Red Hat. OpenBSD is non-automatic in the extreme. -wittig website: http://www.robertwittig.com/ . ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/2jUsvC/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
