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Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems



Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well if you have a LAN port from the modem to the "switch", then you
> connect PCs to the switch -- one of them can do a PPPoE login (not
> PPPoA) and only that one machine will be on the Internet.
You mean that if some WAN is connected directly to the switch (!=
router), the switch is going to share (in some way) the Internet
connection to its other LAN ports?
>
> WAN ports are used on routers and routing b/w the WAN and LAN is taken
> care of with the router doing the PPPoE login and NATing the LAN.
>
Ok.

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