[olug] New COX managed network bad for Linux

[Mark E]

Thanks for the response to my post. I hope I got bad info...

My greatest concern is, still, that I cannot address my machine from outside 
my home. Currently I will login to my home PC from work to get some files or 
do some VNC remote work on lunch break.

Even after your explanation, I still have apprehension about this part. If 
that is indeed a problem, then the ability to run a webserver (even on a 
non-standard port) would be disabled because you could not with any 
reliability be able to connect the machine or address it from the Internet.

-Mark E.

>>4) The computer addressing method will not use a computer name to uniquely
>>ID each machine. It will be as part of the software which is for Windows
>>machines only.
>DHCP will work like this.  Cox will know what your modem's mac address is.
>Cox will say "we will allow 1,2, or 3 individual mac addresses on at any 
>one
>time connected to that modem directly".  Cox does not need to know the mac
>addresses of anything behind the modem.  For instance, I have 4 pc's each
>with mac addresses A, B, C, and D.  I have pc's A and B hooked up to a hub
>hooked up to the modem.  Both pc's are browsing slashdot.org just like
>normal.  I add pc C.  the modem says "ok, a 3rd mac address, I'll allow it
>to connect" and a technomagical wand gets waved and 3rd pc gets ip address
>DHCP.  Ok, so 4th pc, D, is added.  the modem says "ok, I already have 3
>pc's online, so I will not allow this 4th mac address an ip address".  At
>least, this was how it was explained to me.



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