dsl and the confusedness the howto brings about various protocols

[Brent Harding]

Does a hub do the trick? I always thought I needed the two cards as I
likely will use more than one machine with it. I was thinking of getting a
new machine with linux already on it, to use it as the gateway as well as
running whatever I want to run all the time. 
At 11:03 PM 9/10/00 +1100, you wrote:
>Hi:
>
>Nah your computer has the IP, as far as I know.  The router presumably
>makes sure traffic destined for you goes to you and stuff that isn't
>doesn't (DSL owners may well know more about this).  If you have a network
>then you'd need 2 cards in your gateway box, one for your LAN and one for
>the DSL.
>
>Geoff.
>
>
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>Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au>
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