Three newbie questions

[Judy & Lindsay Roberts]

My ISP is orcon.net.nz.

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From: "brousch" <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>
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Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: Three newbie questions


> 
> I think that some ISP's routers are designed to hand out a limited
> number of IP Addresses. I know that mine will only give 1 address, so I
> run that to a linux computer that does NAT for me.
> 
> Have you had multiple computers on the Internet at the same time
> before? If not, you may be limited to 1 IP Address (or 3, I have also
> heard). If you have had multiple computers simultaneously connected
> before, it should work through DHCP.
> 
> Posting your ipconfig from Windows and ifconfig from Ubuntu will help a
> lot to sort things out.
> 
> Also, if you post the name of your ISP, someone who also uses that ISP
> may have some insight into their limitations.
> 
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