> The ISP technician showed up but just upgraded the TV portion. He told us to > call tech-support to get 2 IPs, so I think there is no need to have a new > cable modem. I did not contact them yet as I am not sure if we can hook up > both 2 IPs to 2 NICs on the router. > > A friend with ADSL told me that you need a hub, the modem goes to the > uplink-port, then 2 of the other ports of the hub will be the 2 different > IPs. You could connect 2 computers into those to work. > > Suppose that's the same for the cable modem, if I connect them to 2 NICs in > the router, would they work and how can I modify the DHCP client.
Normally, you only need one external NIC for this...you simply configure the router so it responds to both IP's on the same interface. > Charles, you mentioned something about the public DMZ network. Could you > explain me a little bit more so I can see if it is worth to have 2 IPs or > not. If you have two IP's, you can assign one to your firewall, and one to a server system. This is very helpful if you're hosting a lot of services, but in most cases is not absolutely necessary. You can port-forward particular services from the firewall to a server machine as well. NOTE: There are a few services that don't like being port-forwarded, but most of the common ones (web, e-mail) work fine. NOTE: You can still port-forward services from your firewall, even if you've got two IP's. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
