Have broadband access from Canal Digital. Running a Thompson cable modem. Seems as if the IP addresses I get on the computer connected to this is "public" that the cable modem does not have any dhcp / router functionality, but that it is Canal Digital who give out ip addresses. Correct?
Have set up a WRT54G router, but to avoid double NAT'ing, I use one of the LAN ports on the cable modem and disable dhcp and firewall in this router. Use the fact that an access time. Linksys require that I use a static ip for the router address (local access), so I have given it an address as "similar" on the Canal Digital hands out, and this seems to work fine. But it is not surprising that this works? Can I risk at the IP I have assigned static with Linksys to collides with another computer on Canal Digital's online?
Actually, it is the individual computers that are connected to the Canal Digital exposed directly on the Internet - there is no NAT'ing in the cable modem - the computers have the same ip addresses "local" as "public" ...
Some thoughts about this?
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