On Thursday 02 September 2004 02:19 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 3:07 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > Aron Smith wrote: > > > >MCC will configure your card real nice > > > > > > When you say configured, that is as a card recognised by the systen > > > and a device to be used by the system, you don't mean as part of > > > the network ? > > > > Right AFAIK the addreses are trnslated your card has address > > xxx.xxx.xxx MCC translates that as yyy.yyy.yyy > > OTH what do I know i'm new at this :-) > > There are two networks: > Your local LAN > The ISPs network > > The router's job is to sit on both networks and to pass traffic betwen > them as required. > > The LAN will probably have the address 192.168.1.0, and machines on that > LAN will replace that zero with some number 1-254. So in all likelyhood > your router will be 192.168.1.1, and your computer will be 192.168.1.2 > > The ISPs network will give your router an address, let's say 10.1.1.45 > > When your computer wants to send a packet to a machine that is not on > the 192.168.1.0 network it sends it to the address that it has been > told is the "default gateway". That would be 192.168.1.1 in this case. > > You could (I do) set all these numbers up by editing /etc/hosts and > using "route" to add the router as the default gateway. But there is an > easier way. Just configure the router to get it's external address by > DHCP, and act as a DHCP server to the LAN. IIUC, that's the usual > factory settings. Then configure your computer to be a DHCP client. > IIUC, that's easy using MCC. > > Now all those numbers are handled for you and you can ignore them. The > system just works. > > Why do I do things differently? > 1. I have a static IP address, so the external address is not going to > change. > 2. I have a network printer, and sometimes other computers on the LAN. > It's useful to know their addresses are not going to change. It is > possible to set that up with DHCP, but it's just as easy to not bother > with it and do it by hand. > > ------- > Aron, > On an ethernet network every ethernet card has an address that looks > like 34:54:65:76:98:ba. That's the "ethernet address". You should > ignore it unless you are setting up static addresses in the DHCP > server, (see 2 above.) It has absolutely no effect on the TCP/IP > networking, (that you need to know about.) MCC in no way translates it. > I can go into more detail if you want, but this probably isn't the > right thread. intresting i went out and bought Sam's Teach yourself Networking in 24 hours (they had it at 40% off at Barnes & Noble) so maybe next time I'll know what I'm talking about.
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