Adrian Midgley, stop showing off or I will top post all your messages
without snipping anything out and clog up all your portals. Not to mention
your wireless router broadbands.
So there!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Midgley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Wireless router broadband modems
> On Friday 24 September 2004 09:16, dr brian crowley wrote:
>
> > As erudite, knowledgable and brilliant as you clearly are, I suspect
that
> > you either overestimate the knowledge that the majority of us possess,
or
> > imagine that such a short description of instructions simplifies
matters.
>
> I looked up orbital dynamics on one of the NASA sites a couple of weeks
ago,
> so I have an idea what you are getting at, however, being raised on
Heinlein
> and Campbell myself, and remembering a previous comment and thread on this
> list about "who here has more than one computer on a network at
> home ..." (replies of me me me and I'm Brian and so is my wife) ...
>
> I suspect there are plenty of people who either have a clue, or given the
> hints and Google will be able to bluff on it...
>
> Which is what one needs - "I can't get my network/ed" is less convincing
than
> "come and set up DHCP for me, and make sure the machines can see each
other
> and here is some money".
>
> No?
>
> > (However, I don't think we'd have it any other way ;-) )
>
> SO kind. <g>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adrian Midgley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 24 September 2004 00:35
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Wireless router broadband modems
> >
> >
> > ...
> >
> > DHCP is your friend.
> > Set the router to supply an IP address, advertise itself as gateway and
> > DNS proxy and then tell each new machine to ask (using dhcpclient in
Linux)
> > for a ticket. (Dynamic host Configuration Protocol)
> >
> > You can arrange for a machine to always have the same address by telling
> > the DHSP server its hardware address (MAC) and nominating one address to
> > fix to that, and leave some vacancies, or none, for visitors.
> >
> > --
> > Adrian Midgley Open Source software is better
> > GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/
>
> --
> Adrian Midgley Open Source software is better
> GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/
>
>
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