From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 15 5:53:34 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 078B937B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 05:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F4043E64 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 05:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6FCrT123046; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:53:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g6FCrTm24294; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:53:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6FCrQ924287; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:53:26 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D32C5C6.30809@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:53:26 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020513 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregory Pavelcak Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Naive networking question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 You'll need a NAT box in between, like: PC / World-------Cable Modem--NAT/firewall--Hub----PC \ PC Of course, you can use FreeBSD for the NAT/firewall box.. :) Eric Gregory Pavelcak wrote: > 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message