| From: | Darin Ritchie |
| Date: | 5 Mar 2001 at 18:18:33 |
| Subject: | RE: Cable modem and hub |
Hi there Don,
> I now have a cable modem sitting here, plugged into the hub on my
> network. The LEDs look OK.
I have a very similar setup at home. :-)
Oh, just to let you know that plugging a cable modem into a hub creates a
nasty security hole.
>
> However, I can't see a way to set up MiamiDx so that it can use the
> Ethernet card for both LAN and the cable modem.
>
> Surely it isn't absolutely necessary to have 2 Ethernet cards for this?
> I do have a second Hydra card, but no empty slots.
>
Unfortunately there is no easy way to do that with only one card. I use
MiamiDX as well and found that I can define multiple interfaces fine (one
for my LAN and one for the cable modem), but you can only have one interface
active per ethernet card. So both the LAN interface and the cable modem
interface cannot be active at the same time over the same card.
There are a couple things that you can try. This one depends on the rules
set down by your cable ISP as for assigning IP addresses and how static they
are. You can setup each computer on your LAN to go through the cable modem,
then create a VPN (I'm not sure that the software to do this exists for the
Amiga as I haven't investigated option) amongst the computers on your LAN.
Or what I did was to take an old pc (486/66), stick two old cheap ethernet
cards into it, install Linux on it, and set it up as my gateway/firewall
machine. Then one card is for the cable modem and one for the hub. Works
like a dream for me.
> This is the kind of thing Neil might know the answer to?
>
Hope this helps a bit.
Cheers,
Darin.
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