On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:20:22PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
Now I'm confused. Firstly, I certainly don't expect to plug the HOT modem into the ADSL plug. As I already wrote (see quote above), I thought I could plug the HOT modem into one of the ethernet ports. I may be missing something, but I don't understand why you say I wouldn't be able to use the NAT facility of the router. If the HOT modem plugs into one ethernet port and several computers use the rest of the ethernet ports on the router, why would the router not funtion. Of course it wouldn't be connecteted to the internet directly, but it would be connected to the HOT modem. Am I completely wrong aout this being possible?
It depends. If the WAN connection is actually to an aDSL PAD (looks like a telephone jack), then it won't work. If it is an ethernet port then it will.
The usual routers only have one ethernet port on the LAN side, not 4. It is connected to an internal 5 port hub, so you get 4 LAN ports to plug things into, but the router part only sees one port. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
