Re: Manual Registration Comcast High Speed Internet in Fedora 4

On 1/5/06, Neil Cherry <ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> > On 1/4/06, Min Chen <mcfreemind@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Is this advice for using hub so that more than one computers can connect
> >> to the internet via hub? I only had the cable connection setup for one
> >> computer now.
> >
> > Yes. The cable modem is the dns and default path for the Internet.
>
> ???
>
> A cable modem is a layer 2 device, it is not the DNS it simply
> bridges the Ethernet to the cable modem termination system (CMTS).
> Some cable modems have routers built in, these may have the ability
> to act as DNS proxy.


My DSL router acts as the default route AND dns server -- comcast
can't do that?!?

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