Re: newbie gateway question
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:47 +0100, Doofus wrote:
> Fernando Augusto Bender wrote:
>
> >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
> >>--
> >>If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
> >>(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.
> >
>
> I suspect they were discussing CAT-5 ethernet cabling Fernando, not RS232.
>
>
why do you say that, because of the DCE, DTE noums? They apply to any
cabling. It's something universal.
I just wondered that because the cable modem could be attached the
ethernet interface and not necessarilly to the USB port.
Ms. Eng. Fernando Augusto Bender
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