Cox - is 2 for 1 possible?

[Ed Cernek]

Hi Paul.

I have several machines connected to cox@home, windows and linux, all
capable of accessing the internet at the same time. I believe the extra
$5.00 per month is if you want additional "public" IP addresses;
$5.00/mo. for each additional. I was set up like that for a while when
my son was still at home and I didn't have the linksys. I am now using a
linksys router box and 192.168.y.x series addresses on the "private"
side. Works for me. I went the linksys route instead of something like
GNATBox or LRP (Linux Router Project) because I am not personally
comfortable with these boxes running at home, unattended. Probably
wholly illogical and unjustified, but there it is.

Ed.

> Paul Nauman wrote:
> 
> I was connected via dialup to AOL through my Win98 machine with Shared
> Internet Connection turned on.  This allowed me to also access the
> internet from my Red Hat 7.0 machine.  I am now connected to Cox@home
> through the Win98 machine and would like to access the internet from
> both machines but I can not get it to work on the Linux system.
> 
> Do I have to tell Cox that I am using 2 machines to get a second
> "CX9999999-a" name, and pay an additional $5.00 per month?  :-(
> 
> There must be a way around this, right?  Some one please say yes. :-)
> 
> I live close to GCC, will this situation be discussed at the West Side
> Plug meeting there on Apr. 24th about connecting Linux to the
> internet?
> 
> Thanks for any help setting this up.
> 
> Paul Nauman