Thanks for the reply, Brian. Let me give a little more information about what I currently
know:
I was provided with the following IP's: WAN & submask, Gateway, LAN IP & submask.
I also obtained a DNS IP address from the ISP that this DSL is supposedly connected to.
I can ping my router's LAN IP address when I connect through my dialup internet ISP. The
other IP's give me a 'timed out' message when trying to ping them.
The LAN IP appears to be just the DSL 4-port router's address. I can ping it and telnet to
it (although I don't know it's password, so I can't log into it!) from my in-house computer
called BP.
What I currently have is a hub with three computers connected to it, which is the LAN in my
house. On the hub, there is a 'upload' port that allows me to link to either another hub,
or (as is my current hope) the DSL router. Each of these three computers have network cards
in them, so that much is working.
My first thought was to try to get one computer on this LAN working through the DSL router
using Windoze95 and then apply what I learned (and what worked!) to this same box when it's
running Linux.
The computer I'm currently interested in getting connected has an IP address of 192.168.1.1
(BP). As for IP Masquerading, I'm not sure how that might be done in a Windoze environment,
or if it's necessary?
Does this information tell you anything new?
Thanks again,
Michael
Brian Lavender wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
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> Brian Lavender
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