Bryan Phinney wrote:
I see , dynamic host control protocol DHCP, is actually built into the router/modem itself and as such knows how to set istelf up dynamically. I didn't understand that, and couldn't see how it was gonna be done by MCC, without considerable imput by me.On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
OK then I bow to experience. Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to, and without those answers it don't work. Of course that is trying to set up a network.
I just don't find it clear whether setting up a router/modem plus
ethernet can be done with nothing more than getting the devices
recognised by the system, or that you also have to have the beginning of
a network as well.
Most router/modems work based upon dhcp, which means that they automatically assign an IP address, netmask, broadcast, gateway, (some even do the domain name) to the cards that are plugged into their systems.
OK, so now you have this router/modem(by the way what sort of port is that, or is it PCI device?) and a single ethernet card all nicely plugged in and detected by MCC and working.
So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot 10/100Mbps switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ?
John
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