D'oh!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:57:01PM -0500, Christopher Aitken wrote:
> Okay, I just got printing working. So, the ip addresses obviously work. 
> I still have two concerns:
> 1. I can't scp from another machine to this one, and
> 2. These ip addresses must be assigned by the cable modem/router as I 
> never assigned them. How will I print if the cable modem is down (well, 
> my ISP)? It has happened. Without a static address I can't print across 
> my LAN...

Your router assigns them.  A cable modem would never assign a 192.168
address and your ISP only assigns you one IP, which is taken by the
router since it is the gateway device and masquarades for the rest of
the network.  So as long as the router is working, you will get your
IPs.

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