On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:21:21AM -0400, James E. LaBarre wrote: > 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).
If you go the route I mentioned, you can make a Y adapter w/out damaging the cabling in your wall already, so if you go to gbit in the future you can consider your alternatives then (for instance, getting a vlan-capable switch and running a tagged trunk). -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[email protected]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 There's too much blood in my caffeine system!
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