Re: Newbie question
From: Bill Hudson (hudsonwj@yahoo.com)Date: 04/02/02
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From: Bill Hudson <hudsonwj@yahoo.com> Date: 02 Apr 2002 17:24:20 GMT
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:53:30 -0800, jab_qci wrote:
> This may be best posted to a the networking group but please throw your
> expertise this way if you have time. I have a cable modem attached to
> the uplink of a netgear 10/100 hub (uplink switch in "Normal" position"
> and all is well.
There's your clue.
>... I am running a Mandrake box with a firewall and proxy
> server which works fine so long as the modem is plugged into the hub and
> not directly into the firewall box. It seems to me that the correct way
> to connect would be cable modem to WAN NIC in firewall box and LAN NIC
> to hub for the rest of the network. When I do that, the other boxes
> can't see the Internet. Any suggestions warmly accepted. Please reply
> to list or replace warmmail with you know what in my email address. TIA
With the uplink switch in 'normal', the port is a regular hub port, not
an uplink port. If this configuration is working, it tells me that the
Ethernet port on the cable modem is acting like a NIC, and not a hub.
You can connect two NICs back to back if and only if you use a
'crossover' cable.
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