> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John > Richard Smith > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 4:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband > > > Bryan Phinney wrote: > > >On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > > > > > >>OK then I bow to experience. > >>Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC > >>still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers > to, and without > >>those answers it don't work. Of course that is trying to > set up a network. > >> > >>I just don't find it clear whether setting up a router/modem plus > >>ethernet can be done with nothing more than getting the devices > >>recognised by the system, or that you also have to have the > beginning of > >>a network as well. > >> > >> > > > >Most router/modems work based upon dhcp, which means that > they automatically assign an IP address, netmask, broadcast, > gateway, (some even do the domain name) to the cards that are > plugged into their systems. > > > I see , dynamic host control protocol DHCP, is actually built > into the > router/modem itself and as such knows how to set istelf up > dynamically. > I didn't understand that, and couldn't see how it was gonna > be done by > MCC, without considerable imput by me. > > OK, so now you have this router/modem(by the way what sort of port is > that, or is it PCI device?) and a single ethernet card all nicely > plugged in and detected by MCC and working. > > So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot > 10/100Mbps > switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ? > > John > The router works the same as a hub, so you will be able to uplink it to your switch and extend your network. The router normally has one wan port/modem connection and 4 lan ports. So you will have 4 - 1 for your uplink + 8 - 1 for your uplink so you will now have 10 ports.
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