On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 15:42 +0530, Arindam wrote: > I am a little curious about a few more details. And it would be good > if we can extend the discussion in this forum itself. > > > now if you've a monthly unlimited connection of either 128kbps or 256 > > kbps then what u've with the connection is a router & not a modem. now > > TATA mostly provides connection in this way: > > * they'll lay cables directly to your place & then they'll attach a > > router to it & then through lan cable u can just plug it to your > > computer & use it. > > > > now if you have the same configuration then what you need to do is goto > > yast >> network card >> configure the ip, dns, gateway as per your > > static configuration which you can find out by typing 192.168.1.1 on > > your browser. > > Which is the static configuration? Does Tata Indicom give you static > IPs. As far as I know no ISP in India does that. I'm pretty sure that i've an static ip. as for your info sending u the link http://www.tataindicombroadband.in/access/postpaid/order/postpaid_Pune.htm plz read the last lines i.e notes in the plans which mentions 1 static ip with every postpaid plan.
> > If I have a Linux box sitting at the gateway of a LAN, for this > scenario, it needs to Network interfaces. The LAN facing interface > should have a static IP. But there is no guarantee that the ISP would > allow a static IP for the Internet facing interface. In this case, the > uplink IP (the IP associated with the internet facing NIC) is > variable. I am sure typing 192.168.1.1 will give you your IP address > and other details, but only for a particular session and period. > > Cheers, > Arindam As for this one, my computers are connected through lan. i've a desktop which runs on ubuntu & i've a laptop which runs on suse 10.0. ok now, what i've done is that my router which my link to the outer world is having a GLOBAL static ip, dns configurations etc. to access the router one needs to goto 192.168.1.1 & it'll display the settings. now my router is connected on the other end to my swtich which is my interface for my internal network LAN on which as of now i can connect 6 machines simultaneously. feel free to discuss. i like healthy discussion & interaction. regds, arun. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
