Quoting Simon Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So where does the cable modem connect to? I assumed it would be setup on > a > serial port or does it connect direct to a NIC? > I am already running dhcp on the RH server, but the server itself has > a > fixed address. If OPTUS connects to a NIC am I better off having two in > my > server (or is that essential), one for OPTUS and the other for the rest > of > the LAN?
Depends on the modem they issue you. typically they give external modems which connect to another nic in your computer.. So if you want to share this cable modem link, you'd need 2 nic's. 1 for modem, and 1 for internal lan to hook to the machine controlling it... As someone mentioned, I'd recommend you get a pentium machine with 2 nics to controll it... and then you dont need to worry about configuring firewall rules on your server, just set them up on the stand alone machine :) and have no services running on the nic to the modem :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
