[Gllug] ADSL (and DHCP) woes

[chris.wareham at btopenworld.com]

Matthew Thompson <matt at actuality.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> The flying sperm - I remember it well.
> 

It was affectionately known as "The Frog" round here. Not sure why.

> 
> It appears that this is simply a modem with an ethernet interface - not 
> a router. As such it is a single device only option - to share the 
> connection you'll need to have one device plugged into it which can 
> then share the connection - either a "Broadband gateway" or one of your 
> machines with a second network interface.
> 

I want to use my NetBSD machine as a firewall, so I've chucked an extra NIC into it. What I can't understand is why the Windows machine gets the ISP assigned address from the modem, while the NetBSD machine gets a non-assigned address (192.168.0.2). 

Chris

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