| AMDWiZARD 2002-10-20, 11:25 am |
| Yes they are routers and route packets, granted they arent a $2,000 cisco router, but they can get the job done. If you have multiple public IPs the router will need to hold one IP, you can disable DHCP on the router to stop it from assigning private IPs, if you want to give other machines connected to it public IPs. You will have to setup the router properly to do that.
The router has NAT built into it, if you do use DHCP, it will route the internal private IP addresses packets to the internet, while keeping your intranet safe.
If you have a cable/DSL connection the router will hold the external IP and act as a gateway to the internet for the other machines. |