When they installed your dsl line, they should have given you your
ip address, your gateway, your netmask, your network, your broadcast,
and your dns address. If you got just one ip address, then that would
be the address of the device you are connecting to the dsl bridge
("modem"). In my case I have my computer connected directly to the dsl
bridge. I assign the ethernet card the parameters they gave me when
they installed dsl. Now, if you want to share your connection with
other computers, then you will have to stick another NIC card in your
computer. You assign it a private IP address. (ie 192.168.1.1) You
then connect that card to a hub, and then you enable IP Masquerading,
and attach your other machines to that hub. The end result is you are
sharing one IP amongst all your machines. Now, if you are plugging that
router into your dsl box, you will have to do either one of two things. If
you only got one IP with your dsl, then you must have IP Masquerading on
the router (also referred to as NAT). Essentially a router is a computer
itsself, so it will end up taking an IP address. If it does not have IP
masquerading then you are going to have to get more IP's.
brian
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 11:38:38PM -0700, Michael Picco wrote:
> Can anyone give me a few clues?
>
> Here's the situation ... Just got a DSL line that my company put in. There is a
> 4-port router connected to it and one port is used by my company computer. I'm told
> that I can hook one of my PC's up to it and surf the web at DSL speed. What info as
> far as IP addresses do I need to be able to do it? Is it the DNS address? Where do I
> plug in the IP address when I get it (if I'm on the right track to begin with!!)? I
> can ping the router and the IP's for what are called the WAN and Gateway are known.
> At first I thought one of these addresses had to be used in the proxy section of
> Netscape, but that didn't work.
>
> So close, yet so far!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>
-- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
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