On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:11, Jon Shorie wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2004 10:45, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 22:09, javac@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > > i have a cable modem, and periodically lose my internet connection. > > > Presumabely, my provider is changing my IP and FC1 isn't automatically > > > detecting the new IP. ? > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > javac at mail dot com > > In may area there is a cable company whose service fails regularly. > > See also if your IP address is changed. If not then most probably it is > > outside of your box. > I have a simple solution, and this is what I did at home. I purchased a > d-link hardware router with firewall. It only costs between $20 and $40 > > Here are two links to tiger direct for this part: > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=618593&Sku=D700-2059&CatId=198 > > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=328846&Sku=D700-2050%20P&CatId=198 > > You then connect up your pc to the router and then the router to the cable > modem. Make sure that the modem is powered off when you do this. > > When you bring everything up, the pc will get its internet connection from the > router and it just works. > > In fact, this router permits up to 4 pc's to share the connection (or more > with an uplink cable) as well as providing a local dhcp service to your > network. Finally, you can set it up to provide you with network address > translation so that your local machines are on a non-routable subnet. > > The biggest benefit of something like this is that it increases your machine's > security by providing an additional layer between you and the internet. Frankly I don't believe that. Although it removes the idiot factor (of Duh.. factor as Homer puts it) -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 11:22:58 up 43 min, 5 users, load average: 2.83, 2.40, 1.80
