I also have a charter cable modem with a linksys router. However I set the router up to deliver dhcp addresses to roaming computers ie, my wife's laptop from work and the rest of my computers have static IPs. It saved me the hassle of setting up a dhcp server. For email I use KDE Mail and set it up to grab the mail directly from my isp's on demand. On Monday 02 July 2001 10:03, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:

I have a charter cable modem, but I took the easy way out. I have a linksys firewall/router. I have static IPs behind the router. I have a single port (ssh) open, so I can connect while at work (like right now).

I have two boxes running at home -- my linux box and a Win98 box. I have the linux box to myself, and my wife & 3 kids beat on the Win98 box. (Sometimes Win98 stays up for days at a time. :-) )

I have my email configured to use fetchmail to suck email directly from my charter email drop, and I read/compose it locally with pine.

I'm slowly (oh so slowly) playing with DNS to supply services at home.

Bill

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