D'oh!

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

Actually, some do.  For example, I bought one from Rogers a couple of 
years ago, and when in off-line mode it will act as a DHCP server, 
handing out those addresses.


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