| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 3 Mar 2001 at 22:26:12 |
| Subject: | Re: Cable modem and hub |
neil said,
DC>> Surely it isn't absolutely necessary to have 2 Ethernet cards for this?
> The reason for two cards is usually that the cable modem performs no
> filtering, and broadcasts all data it receives. With one ethernet card, this
> is whatever passes across your LAN.
Unless you are using PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet), which is intended to
work with a single LAN card.
PPPoE helps by replacing the need for a second card with a whole new set
of problems...
Neil
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