[newbie] Its DSL! Now what?

2003-06-16 Thread Thomas Williams
OK, so remember I was asking about DSL and setting it up on the hub and so forth? Well, part of this is I think the oddities of 8.1 so I'm going to write off some of it as merely that. I got the modem and it came with a red crossover cable. I had an extra uncrossed ethernet cable that I hooked

Re: [newbie] Its DSL! Now what?

2003-06-16 Thread Thomas Williams
On Monday 16 June 2003 19:42, you wrote: You don't need a router, but a second NIC in your linux box would allow you to create the best setup.  This would go something like: Windows machine connects to your first NIC either via the hub or via the crossover cable.  As you have a hub, might as

Re: [newbie] Its DSL! Now what?

2003-06-16 Thread Thomas Williams
On Monday 16 June 2003 21:25, you wrote: It sounds like they are trying to make networking as difficult as possible by making it necessary to use a crossover cable to connect to the modem.  I don't believe that going into the hub would work for you because of the crossover cable issue. Well,