Re: newbie gateway question
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 15:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Fernando Augusto Bender <fernando.bender@antiwindup.org> wrote:
>
> > Something I missed... do your Debian box has an ethernet port?
> > I believe your Cable Modem does have an ethernet port as well.
> >
> > If it is so, your just connect them with an cross-over 10BaseT cable,
> > and you deploy your security measures, as well as monitoring and routing
> > issues.
>
> Not cross-over cable. Or maybe it depends on cable modem? Mine works
> with a patch (straight) cable.
>
> Andrei
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> (Albert Einstein)
>
>
Well, formerly straight cables were used to connect DTE to DCE.
DCE-DCE or DTE-DTE shall be connected cross-over.
DCE - data communication devices, like switch, modems, routers.
DTE - data terminal devices: hosts.
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