I've read sometime ago about the @home setup that gives a computer name and the changes needed in Linux to accept that config. Since I live in Brazil I hadn't that message archived, but you can find it in the web archives.
About your friend setup: is possible to enable a network to use the same link. Set the first machine with the needed setup to work with at home. That same machine should be configured as a proxy for the network, so it should have two network cards, one with the ip address for @home, the other with an address for the house network. The other machines will use the first machine as a gateway. HTH orlando Todd Zashin wrote: > I saw some communication regarding cable modems and I wanted to chime in > with a question I have. Please give me some leniency as I know this is not > directly Linux Mandrake but you guys always have the best answers so I > thought I would quickly ask. > > I have a friend who wants to use AT HOME to share his Internet Connection > between two PCs thats it. He wants both PCs to use the Internet at the same > time with one AT HOME connection. I told him he could do this via a Linksys > EtherFast Cable Dsl Router 4 port. My other buddy tells me that there is no > way that this is possible because the way our cable company has the internet > service setup. The AT HOME service assigns you a computer name that you > must enter on your PC. So, my buddy says there is no way you can share the > connection because how are you going to have the router know the computer > name. My answer to him was DHCP. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. > That you could make the Linksys box get the IP from the Modem and then send > that information onto the client. > > Well here is where I get messed up in my theory. The cable modem service is > only going to allow one login right? I mean you can only allow one computer > name and IP per connection or you will have a conflict correct on a network? > So, how does the Linksys router authenticate to the Cable Modem Service and > still allow the clients to share the connection. DHCPbroadcasting? > Forwarding? What am I missing here? There is a piece in the logic that I > am missing. > > Thanks for your help. > Thrashin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Sherman > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 5:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] LM8.1, DHCP & Cable connection, Cache DNS > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 08 October 2001 02:24 am, Frederic Soulier wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I got a cable connection, everytime the network is started or >>restarted I end up with /etc/resolv.conf being overwriten with >>the 2 DNS server IP address of my cable ISP. >> >>It works fine but the pbm is that I have a cache DNS setup on >>my server and therefore in my /etc/resolv.conf I want my server >>to look 1st in the cache before going to the ISP DNS. >>Unfortunately, if I change /etc/resolv.conf it will get overwritten >>the next time the network service start. >> >>Any idea on how I could make my changes permanent >>in /etc/resolv.conf ? >> > > This may depend on how your cable modem works: is it a bridge or a router? > > If it is a router, then it is probably also running a small dhcp server > for you, and assigning your DNS addresses for you, thus overwriting your > existing resolv.conf. You can either reconfigure your cable modem/router's > dhcp server to add your own caching dns server, or turn off the dhcp > server completely, and either run your own Linux dhcp server (that's what > I do with DSL) or assign all IPs and whatnot statically. > > If it is a bridge (most likely, from what I have seen), then your ISP is > probably doing your dhcp at their end. In this case, I don't know if you > can do anything, since you need to get your config from them in order to > work on their network. > > Dave > - -- > 7:54am up 2 days, 15:33, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.14, 0.10 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE7waMHA68l26XsZUYRAnPWAKCH5+rcFk7E0DFayx+++Qdzj0GIzgCgix6f > vwyIW3vniV3zvnuQDM1SY3s= > =NRzv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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