Donald Gordon wrote:
>
> The saturn cable network is basically a large switched ethernet LAN. IP
> and
> other stuff can run over it; you can only see packets destined for you
> and
> broadcast ones. The modem doesn't know IP, AFAIK. The PC connected to
> it
> uses DHCP to ask another system on the network for the IP address, if I
> understand the David's FAQ correctly
>

OK. Looking at the COM21 web page, it seems the modem acts as a bridge
at the MAC level, so the filtering is based on a h/w address.

So, does it have its own address? Or does it discover the address of the
nic(s) it is connected to?
The specs say it has an 8 entry bridge table and is able to support 8
users via a normal hub.

--brian

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Received on Sun Jun 4 17:58:33 2000