Mike Kershaw wrote: > This would fail for exactly that reason - hubbed, all the clients on the > hub w/ the cable modem will try to get their IPs from it. If the cable > modem only gives out an IP to the router first, then it might work, but > then you'll have a race condition during startup. Probably a bad scene. > > Can you just run another cable for it? Or if you really really don't > want to, use some cat5 punchdown sockets and make a splitter to pull the > pairs apart and get 2 100meg cables out of it. (Won't work for gbit)
I think that Comcast might provide 2 addresses at most. If not one only. I had originally considered putting a second outlet in that room, but I was waiting for the builders to finish up a cpuple walls so I could put the outlet box & wires in place. I waited for a while with nothing happening, then suddenly the walls were in place with sheetrock already up. Could split the existing cable; I expect any gigabit I would be using would stay within the office (therefore off a single hub, not going into the rest of the house). _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 7 - Web Hack-a-thon - SUNY Newpaltz Apr 1 - EC2 and Cloud Computer May 6 - TBD
