On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > 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.
Ethernet. According to the description, it is a one-port ethernet router/modem which means one connection to the phone for DSL and one ethernet port. > 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 ? Since the router/modem is equivalent to any other type of ethernet connection, you would hook it up and configure it exactly the same way you would to any other router, right? Assuming that you are using the Dlink device now, hooking it up to the broadband modem as opposed to a cisco router connected to a T-1 would be about the same. You need to point the switch to use the router/modem as a bridge, the machines all get hooked up to the Dlink device and configured, and away you go. Introducing the DES-1008D is no more difficult than introducing it with any other type of network connection, except that with the USB version, you have fewer options since it won't interface with the USB modem at all. And, to use the Dlink with the USB modem would require putting a machine in between them, hooking the switch up to an ethernet card in the machine and letting the machine act as a bridge. Personally, I would find letting the router/modem act as a bridge and hooking the Dlink directly up to that to be easier. If you are already using such a device with a broadband connection that consists of a usb modem, I wouldn't imagine that you would have any problems at all knowing how to get it working with an ethernet device. -- Bryan Phinney
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