speak freely via a router

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi,

	If your ISP won't give you multiple IP's or will charge you more for them, you might consider a hardware  router. I have a Linksys which connects to my cable modem	and does ip masquerading for all the local machines to the internet.

	hth,

	--terry

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:49:55PM -0700, David Csercsics wrote:
> >Ah.   Well, it turns out that the only  way I could have access to the
> >internet is to run my laptop through the family computer; obviously, they
> >don't know the first thing about a  computer besides click this  or that,
> >and won't try linux whatever I say.  Thus, this forces me to setup the
> >family box as a router, and I have to run it through there.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Well that shouldn't be necessary just get an ISP	 that will
> give you multiple IP addresses and then you use a hub not  a router
> so that the computers and operating systems won't matter. We have a
> Windows box here that is on the same cable modem as this one but the
> cable company gives you up to 4 IP's  so it's not a problem.
> 
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