Why do I need a router or a computer server. I am not trying to run a
network, but rather get on the internet. Yes I do use a ethernet switch to
connect two pc's, but that has nothing to do with it, since only one is on
at the same time. The switch or not the switch (even when the cable modem
is connected directly to the NIC) it doesn't work. Routers are used to
distribute bandwidth between computers on the network. What are the two
NICs for?
Ilya Sterin
>From: Tuan tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Ilya Sterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up
>Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 19:52:31 -0700 (PDT)
>
>You need a Router or a computer server. If you want to
>put a linux computer act like a server, you may need
>to put 2 NIC (eth0 & eth1). 1 (eth0) should connect to
>cable modem and the other connect to the hub. Set
>others computer to dynamic IP.
>--- Ilya Sterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am trying to install NetGear ethernet card to use
> > with my cable modem
> > (RoadRunner service, dynamically assigns IP
> > addresses) which is recognized
> > and uses the tulip driver on Mandrake 8.0. It seems
> > like the detection
> > using the Mandrake Internet Configuration, goes
> > fine. It detects an
> > ethernet card and sets up LAN with no error
> > messages. Under host I tried
> > rr.twmi.com and the default localhost.localdomain,
> > neither work, but I don't
> > really know what host they are looking for. Neither
> > worked though, my Win2K
> > system works fine and with ipconfig tells me that
> > the default host is
> > rr.twmi.com (that's where I got it from). After the
> > internet set up, the
> > applet has the connect to internet button which when
> > I click tries (for
> > about 20-30 seconds) to connect but with no luck. I
> > did select auto dhcp,
> > when setting up. A few times the applet actually
> > showed that something was
> > send, but no bytes received??? I am also not sure
> > that anything was ever
> > send, since there is no way for me to verify and the
> > applet might have a
> > different deffinition of send and consider no error
> > as send??? Am I missing
> > some steps here? I did go through the archive and
> > found that I need to run
> > the
> > 'dhcpcd -d -n -h COxxxxxxx-A eth0'
> > command. What is COxxxxxx-A are the x's need to be
> > subsituted, or is this a
> > litteral meaning?
> >
> > Thanks in advance to anyone that replies.
> >
> > Ilya Sterin
> >
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