On 12/4/04 8:33 PM, Rad Craig of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent > Just pickup a DSL router and use network address translation (NAT), > practically every small home router has this now. I have one wired and one > wireless, they both have it, both work great. Using NAT gives your computer > a 'private' address that only the inside of the router (your 'local' (inside > your home) network) knows. It shows a different address, the one from the > phone company, to the rest of the world as it's taken and > controlled/protected by the router and not your computer. The router will > have a built-in firewall for more protection. This way, no one can > determine what ip address your computer is actually running. They can see > the outside of the router, the 'public' ip address, from your phone company, > only. > > These routers are fairly inexpensive. > > This is about as secure as you can make a home network that is connected to > the internet. > Very interesting, Rad. I have a cable router for our system, which has it IP addresses assigned dynamically. Can it do NAT? If so, how does one do it? Thanks for the lesson, Dana
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