From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 15 5:41:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16EBB37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 05:41:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from supai.oit.umass.edu (supai.oit.umass.edu [128.119.175.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359A543E42 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 05:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gpav@som.umass.edu) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by supai.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #38130) id <0GZA00701J3BIY@supai.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:38:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from yolen.oit.umass.edu (yolen.oit.umass.edu [128.119.166.35]) by supai.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #38130) with ESMTP id <0GZA0071HJ3BGW@supai.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:37:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by yolen.oit.umass.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g6FCbx8Q007220 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:37:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:37:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Gregory Pavelcak Subject: Naive networking question X-Sender: gp@yolen.oit.umass.edu To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Authentication-warning: yolen.oit.umass.edu: gp owned process doing -bs Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm thinking about getting AT&T broadband. According to their website, if you want to have access on several PCs simultaneously, you need a switch and additional IP addresses. I assume they're not giving static addresses. Can I just use a hub, let the PCs setup DHCP and have access from all them simultaneously? PC / World-------Cable Modem----Hub----PC \ PC Thanks. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message