Re: newbie gateway question

[Doofus <doofus@bulldoghome.com>]

Fernando Augusto Bender wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:47 +0100, Doofus wrote:
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> > Fernando Augusto Bender wrote:
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> > > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 15:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
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> > > > Fernando Augusto Bender <fernando.bender@antiwindup.org> wrote:
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> > > > > 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.
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> > > > Not cross-over cable. Or maybe it depends on cable modem? Mine works
> > > > with a patch (straight) cable.
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> > > > Andrei
> > > > --
> > > > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
> > > > (Albert Einstein)
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> > > 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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> > I suspect they were discussing CAT-5 ethernet cabling Fernando, not RS232.
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> why do you say that, because of the DCE, DTE noums? They apply to any
> cabling. It's something universal.
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> I just wondered that because the cable modem could be attached the
> ethernet interface and not necessarilly to the USB port.


dce/dte terminology used to describe ethernet wiring? Well there you go, 
I hear of something new every day. Does rts/cts also feature? And now 
you've confused me even more (it's easily done  ;-) by thowing USB ports 
into the mix...