[plug] RE: Setup of Router

[Ari Finander]

>===== Original Message From "NVT Australia" <greg at nvt.com.au> =====
>Connect everything on your network to the hub, except for the modem. (this
>should already be the case, I imagine) Put a second ethernet card in your
>router (which is now your linux box) and connect that to the modem with a
>crossover cable. (probably the cable previously between netgear and modem)
>
>
>-Greg(who has been newbyish for a bit longer :)


Crossover cable?  Are you sure?  I've a Telstra cable modem (if it weren't for 
that shite 3GB limit I'd be downloading linux distros now) and it connects 
directly with network cards (an old realtek one in my wife's computer over an 
18m ethernet cable and a USB ethernet adapter in mine over the 2m supplied 
cable) using regular ethernet cable (not corssover) without problems.  I'd 
assume that this is the same with an ADSL modem?  I'm no expert on this, 
though, 'cuz if I were I never would have been able to make this observation 
about regular ethernet rather than crossover cables because I'd have this 
darned smoothwall gateway/firewall fully functional already!  I'm assuming 
that if these types of modems required crossover cable, that this setup that I 
currently have would simply not work...?

Ari

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