2008/10/9 Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Now I'm confused. Firstly, I certainly don't expect to plug the HOT modem into > the ADSL plug. As I already wrote (see quote above), I thought I could plug > the HOT modem into one of the ethernet ports. I may be missing something, but > I don't understand why you say I wouldn't be able to use the NAT facility of > the router. If the HOT modem plugs into one ethernet port and several > computers use the rest of the ethernet ports on the router, why would the > router not funtion. Of course it wouldn't be connecteted to the internet > directly, but it would be connected to the HOT modem. Am I completely wrong > aout this being possible? >
The ADSL modem is a router/modem, not a switch/modem. The difference (at the superficial level that we are dealing with) is that with a router, there is a WAN side (the Interwebs) and a LAN side (your home computers). You cannot plug the Interwebs into the LAN side and expect it to work- it won't. Your ADSL router/modem has the WAN side of the router plugged into the modem internally. You need either a switch, or better yet, a router. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
