Well, I'm not going to elaborate on my needs for multiple IP's (static preferably) for fear of starting another holy-war from the IP-zealots that feel its their job to make sure the IP4 adderss space is not used up. I have certain needs that proxy/nat/masq whatever cant meet and therefore i prefer multiple static ip's for the same reason any company out there needs a subnet. I've designed and administered enterprise level networks for years and also write network software from firewalls to RMON2 probes on linux so Im aware when places like time-warner are doing a shoddy job or just feeding me BS (or both in this case). As for the internal network thing. I already have 2 nics (at least) in every box and have a local 10-net for my private traffic. That way when time- warner's crap equipment doesnt do its job I dont lose network access internally at least. I'd rather not waste my time administering my own network like its a job which is what having an internal network, masq'ing ip's, using DHCP address that constantly change, etc. makes me do. I'd much rather have a static subnet, statically IP my boxes once and be done with it. That way I can spend more time designing useful software and writing code for the people of this world instead of spending my time building and maintaining a "titanium network-fort". Cheers At 07:50 AM 1/25/01 -0600, you wrote: >Question, why did you "buy" five IP's. I would love to know what you plan >to do with them. I have one IP and route my other two computers through >Linux to the internet. As for tech(no)support, I would not be surprise if >you were right about them passing the phone around. The sad thing is that I >know as much about networking as there level one and two people do and the >only training I had was a semester of networking at St. Paul Tech and the >course was not that great either. > >Other information: >I have two NICs registered with ATT Broadband (mediaone). They allow you to >have up to three registered, you can only use them one at a time. > >Try putting a second NIC in your Linux machine and try connecting, say your >laptop, through it out to the internet. I have hard coded the IP address >for the intranet because that is the only way I know how to do it right now. >I am using 192.168.0.1 through 192.168.0.3. I don't need to access the >other two machines from outside my home so this setup works well. > >As per the warning I received yesterday. Here is my message in plain text, >thanks to all for not flaming me. > > >John Miller >Dain Rauscher Inc. >Application Services >IS Capital Markets >Phone 612-547-7573 >Fax 612-547-7580