Router Question

[Craig White]

Quoting Tyler Hall <plug@webfreaks.com>:

> Greetings;
> 
> I have a question about a router.  I'm looking to buy one for our work
> connection, but is a little worried.   Right now We have 5 ips, 4 of
> them
> are used for the higher end employees (president, vice president, etc)
> and
> the other 5 computers are on fake ips.  I'm running Redhat doing
> masquerating to masqerade those other 5 computers, but I play around
> with it
> a lot so it's not the most stable thing on this planet.  So I thought
> to
> myself, Hey I'll just go buy a d-link router for $85.   But, I'm
> running
> into these problems.    It has 2 ports, a remote port and a local port. 
>  Do
> I need both of them plugged in?  It says, put the modem in the local
> port (i
> believe) and plug the other thing into the hub.
> 
> Well...      right now, the modem is going straight to the uplink of
> the
> hub, and then everyone uses it from there.    It also says, that you
> can
> plug one end into the hub and one end into the computer?  I could do
> that,
> but then does that mean the computer has to be on 24/7 for the router
> to
> work?  That wouldnt solve my problem, I want a 24/7 deciated
> connection!
> 
> So, I'm thinking.    Could I take both remote and local ports, and plug
> them
> both into the hub?  Or does one have to be to the  modem?
> 
> If I have to plug one into the modem, and one into the hub, will it
> affect
> the real ips at all?   Like, if the router is down, it's going to stop
> the
> flow of the connection to the hub, eh?   Also, if I make some routing
> rules
> on the router, is it going to use those routing rules on the real ips
> as
> well?  Even though the real ips dont use the router gateway, they use
> the
> modem gateway?   I'm stuck folks, I've looked over the net and can't
> find
> crap.  So, I came to plug! :>
> 
> -
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George's admonition notwithstanding...

very crude attempt at ascii art

INTERNET via DSL modem
           |
         HUB
           |
 ________________________
 |           |          |
ROUTER    PUBLIC IP    PUBLIC IP
  |
  |
 HUB
  |
 _______________________________________________
   |              |            |              |
   |              |            |              |
PRIVATEIP     PRIVATEIP      PRIVATEIP     PRIVATEIP



Probably best if you pub all the computers behind the router and not have any of
the computers on public IP's since the mix is very unconducive to a safe
efficient lan but that point seemed to be lacking from your question.

Craig

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